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The KARL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,135 5227 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,012 5401 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +5123 +174 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 95 14916 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KARL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 562 3401 0.003 30
Ohio 502 2743 0.004 44
Wisconsin 495 1290 0.009 92
Texas 408 5051 0.002 20
Illinois 364 3507 0.003 29
Top States for KARL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 495 1290 0.009 92
Minnesota 236 2667 0.005 48
Alaska 30 2992 0.005 48
Missouri 251 2940 0.004 45
Ohio 502 2743 0.004 44

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KARL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KARL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KARL in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KARL by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KARL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KARL surname.

Ethnic distribution of KARL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 111 1.81
Black/African American 90 1.47
Mixed Race 65 1.06
Asian/Pacific 57 0.93
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.28
White (Caucasian) 5,795 94.46

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KARL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

KARL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KARL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KARL.

Similar names to KARL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KARL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KARL

The following words are slight variants of KARL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.