Meaning and history
German and Scandinavian form of Charles, this name was borne by seven rulers of the Franks and the Holy Roman Empire, a beatified emperor of Austria (1887–1922), and ten kings of Sweden. Notable bearers also include the German philosophers Karl Marx (1818–1883), a political theorist and socialist, and Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), an existentialist and psychiatrist.
20062006: 270 births, rank #769
2007: 242 births, rank #859
2008: 188 births, rank #1,019
2009: 207 births, rank #966
2010: 177 births, rank #1,086
20112011: 173 births, rank #1,078
2012: 161 births, rank #1,135
2013: 169 births, rank #1,096
2014: 165 births, rank #1,147
2015: 184 births, rank #1,075
20162016: 167 births, rank #1,149
2017: 141 births, rank #1,287
2018: 143 births, rank #1,282
2019: 145 births, rank #1,283
2020: 104 births, rank #1,568
20212021: 115 births, rank #1,529
2022: 128 births, rank #1,425
2023: 101 births, rank #1,681
2024: 99 births, rank #1,685
20252025: 107 births, rank #1,585
Karl moved from #860 to #967 for boys between 2007 and 2009. Its highest annual birth count came in 1960, with 2,594 births.