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Carls Carls is a feminine given name.
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Popularity score No recent data Boys and girls Mostly boys
95.7% boysBased on U.S. population records 4.3% girls
People named Carls in the U.S. Rare About 30 to 300 people. Estimated from birth records for children and population records for adults.
Interest on PerfectNameFinder Not yet scored Not enough visits yet to score. Every read and save counts toward it. Meaning & origin How it developed In English usage, Carls is a diminutive of Carly.
Carls’s family of names In English usage, Carls is a diminutive of Carly. In German usage, Carls as a surname has a related form in Karl. In English usage, Carls has a related form in Carly.
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Carls Carly Karl The ring: nicknames and forms.
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Nicknames & forms 2 Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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About this profile. Meanings and origins are drawn from historical dictionaries and reference works, including Wiktionary; where interpretations differ, we say so. Popularity comes from U.S. Social Security birth records, 1880–2025. Famous namesakes come from Wikidata. Related names are linked through documented relationships; likely links are labeled as such.