Carl

10,555 people in the United States were counted with the surname Carl in the 2020 census, making it the 3,339th most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,300.

By the numbers

People: 10,555
Rank: 3,339th
How common: 1 in 28,300
Per 100,000: 3.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Carl described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Carl

Duke Carl, Duke of Württemberg (1936–2022)Head of the House of Württemberg
Victoria Carl (born 1995)German cross-country skier
Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763–1814)German nobleman; first husband of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Renée Carl (1875–1954)actress
Katharine Augusta Carl (1865–1938)American painter and author
Jerry Carl (born 1958)American politician
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen (1863–1945)Danish sculptor, author of The Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX

People named Carl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Carl

Also a first name

Carl has been given to 508,017 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1956. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.