Boy
Karl
Rooted in Germanic, Karl is a boy's name that means "Germanic form of Charles". It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. The registry counts around 99,798 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
GermanicGermanic form of Charles
EtymologyMeaning "free man"
Births by decade
1900s
792
1910s
4,715
1920s
5,835
1930s
7,753
1940s
9,739
1950s
18,796
1960s
21,419
1970s
10,875
1980s
9,621
1990s
6,127
2000s
2,797
2010s
1,329
Peaked in the 1960s · 99,798 total U.S. births since 1900