Karl
Karl is the 5,893rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,638 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 53,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 5,638
- Rank
- 5,893rd
- How common
- 1 in 53,000
- Per 100,000
- 1.9
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Karl described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Karl
- Lennart Karl (born 2008)German association football player
- Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este (1754–1806)Austrian archduke, founder of the House of Austria-Este
- Benjamin Karl (born 1985)Austrian snowboarder
- Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1813–1878)duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
- George Karl (born 1951)American basketball player and coach
- Prince Karl, 8th Prince of Auersperg (1814–1890)Czech member of Czech council
- Martin Karl (1911–1942)German rower
- Karl, Freiherr von Prel (1839–1899)German philosopher, writer and occultist
People named Karl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Karl
Also a first name
Karl has been given to 101,751 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1960. 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.