Karl
Karl , also in the spelling Carl , is a male given name .
Origin and meaning
Karl is derived from the old high German karal ("man, husband, lover"). which in turn goes back to the Germanic * karlaz or * karilaz ("free man; little, young man; old man", actually a diminutive of * karaz "man"). Carl is considered a Latinized spelling and is documented as Carles in the 16th century (from Latin Carolus , cf. French and English Charles ). The development of meaning from the old Germanic to the old high German word can be explained by a caressing usage that led to “my little man” to “dear husband”. A diminutive of Karl is Karlchen and is used as a nickname .
name day
- cath .: January 7th - Sl. Charles of Sezia , Franciscan in Rome, martyr
- Catholic, ev .: January 28th - St. Charlemagne , Roman emperor, empire founder
- Catholic: March 2nd - St. Charles the Good of Flanders, Martyr of Peace
- Catholic: June 3rd - St. Karl Lwanga , Ugandan martyr
- cath .: August 12th - Sl. Karl Leisner , German martyr in the Dachau concentration camp
- Catholic: August 24th - St. Karl von Borango , Austrian religious, missionary, martyr on Saipan
- ev .: October 20th - Karl Segebrock , German-Baltic missionary and martyr
- cath .: October 21 - Sl. Charles I of Austria-Hungary , last emperor of Austria-Hungary
- Catholic: November 4th - St. Charles Borromeo , cardinal, archbishop of Milan and counter-reformer
popularity
The name Karl was a very popular boy name in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unusually long, namely from 1890 to the end of the 1930s, it was in the top 10 most awarded names and was often number one. Then its popularity began to decline. After a low point in the early 1990s, more and more newborns were being called Karl.
variants
The feminine form of the first name is Karla or Carla.
- Albanian : Karl
- Bavarian : Kare
- Bulgarian : Karl (Карл)
- German : Carl, Karl, Karle, Kalle , Kali, Karlo, Keerl , Kerll
- English : Carl, Charles , Charlie , Charly , Chas , Chaz , Chuck , Chuckles , Chucky
- Estonian : Kaarel , Karl
- Finnish : Kaarle, Kaarlo
- French : Charles
- Greek : Karolos (Κάρολος)
- Irish : Séarlas
- Italian : Carlo
- Catalan : Carles
- Croatian : Karlo
- Latin : Carolus
- Latvian : Kārlis
- Luxembourgish : Charel , Karel
- Dutch : Karel
- Norwegian : Carl, Karl
- Polish : Karol
- Portuguese : Carlos
- Romanian : Carol
- Russian : Karl (Карл)
- Swedish : Karl, Kalle
- Sorbian : Korla
- Spanish : Carlos
- Czech : Karel
- Hungarian : Károly
- Welsh : Siarl
Double name formation:
Well-known namesake
Nobles
Rulers and princes
- see list of rulers named Karl
- see list of princes named Karl
- Carl von Hohenbalken , old ministerial family in Val Müstair (German Münstertal, Italian Val Monastero) in the Swiss canton of Graubünden
from families:
- Karl von Habsburg , various Habsburgs
such as
- Karl Martell (686–741), Franconian caretaker
- Charles de Valois, duc d'Orléans (until 1465)
- Karl von Hessen-Kassel (1744–1836), Landgrave
- Karl (V.) (1788–1855), Spanish pretender to the throne, see Carlism
- Karl Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862), prince
- Carl von Prussia (1801-1883), Prince, Lord Master of the Order of St. John
- Charles (VI.) (1818–1861), Spanish pretender to the throne, see Carlism
- Charles (VII.) (1848–1909), Spanish pretender to the throne, see Carlism
- Karl Theodor in Bavaria (1839–1909), German ophthalmologist
- Karl Rahner (1904–1984), German Catholic theologian
- Carlos Hugo von Bourbon-Parma (1930-2010), Spanish pretender to the throne, see Carlism
- Carl von Württemberg (* 1936), head of the House of Württemberg since 1975
First name
There are a large number of personalities with the first name Karl or Carl. See Wikipedia People Search .
Middle name
- Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924–1994), Austrian philosopher and science theorist
- Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), German legal scholar and crown syndic. Founder of the historical school of law
- Friedrich-Carl Kobbe (1892–1957), German writer, journalist, theater and radio play director
- Adolf Karl Heinrich Slaby (1849–1913), first professor for electrical engineering at TH Berlin
- Philipp Karl von Wylich and Lottum (1650–1719), Prussian field marshal
- Friedrich Karl von Vechelde (1801–1846), German lawyer, historian and publicist
Stage name
- Carl Friedman , stage name of Carolina Klop (* 1952), Dutch writer
- Karl Valentin , stage name of Valentin Ludwig Fey (1882–1948), Bavarian comedian, cabaret artist, author and film producer
family name
- see Karl (family name)
- and Carl (family name)
- as well as Keerl
- and Kehrli (family name)
Fictional characters
- Der Herr Karl , a one-person piece by Helmut Qualtinger and Carl Merz
- Karl (comic) , a comic figure by Michael Apitz, Eberhard and Patrick Kunkel
- Karl Ranseier , fictional character of the TV show "RTL Saturday Night"
- Karl the Coyote , a character in the Warner Brothers cartoons
- Karl Klammer , a comic figure serving as an interface between customer and program in Microsoft Office
- Karl the Beetle , the protagonist of an environmental song of goosebumps (band)
- Garden gnome Karl , mascot of the Federal Garden Show 2019 (after the former Karlshafen Heilbronn )
magazine
Storms
- Hurricane Karl , strong hurricane that reached Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale in September 2010 in the southern Gulf of Mexico .
Cities and municipalities
The name is often used as part of city names by naming it after people.
- Carlsbad / Karlsbad , Carlsberg / Karlsberg , Karlburg / Karlsburg , Carlsfeld / Karlsfeld , Karlshausen , Karlskron , Karlingen , Karlsruhe , Carlstadt / Karlstadt , Karlstein
Foreign language:
- in Croatia: Karlovac
- in Sweden: Karlshamn , Karlskrona , Karlstad
- in the Czech Republic: Karlštejn
