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The CARLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,221 9302 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 1,132 4925 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +2089 -4377 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 265 5830 0.002 16
United Kingdom 451 9532 0.001 10
Top States for CARLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 310 8983 0.001 9
Ohio 288 5079 0.003 25
New York 232 8671 0.001 12
Florida 193 10000 0.001 12
Illinois 140 9881 0.001 11
Top States for CARLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 84 961 0.013 134
Maine 100 2315 0.008 78
New Hampshire 77 2539 0.006 62
Idaho 49 3955 0.004 38
Vermont 17 5345 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of CARLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CARLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CARLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CARLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 128 3.97
Black/African American 106 3.29
Native American/Alaskan 84 2.61
Mixed Race 58 1.8
Asian/Pacific 14 0.43
White (Caucasian) 2,831 87.89

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

Meaning of CARLE in historical publications

CARLE. A-Sax. ceorl, a man, a rustic, a stout man. Carl is used in all these seuses in Scotland. Also see under Caryll.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CARLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARLE.

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 CARLE

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