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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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?

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.