Carls Surname
Approximately 3,345 people bear this surname
Carls Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1,370 | 1:58,763 | 7,588 |
| United States | 1,248 | 1:290,432 | 26,961 |
| South Africa | 335 | 1:161,724 | 18,138 |
| Philippines | 84 | 1:1,205,217 | 94,524 |
| Brazil | 84 | 1:2,548,504 | 77,255 |
| Sweden | 60 | 1:164,113 | 11,407 |
| Australia | 26 | 1:1,038,296 | 59,744 |
| India | 22 | 1:34,866,608 | 408,224 |
| Belgium | 18 | 1:638,702 | 56,744 |
| Canada | 12 | 1:3,070,466 | 169,836 |
| Italy | 10 | 1:6,115,669 | 111,715 |
| Austria | 10 | 1:851,544 | 67,454 |
| Taiwan | 9 | 1:2,604,972 | 16,335 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Spain | 5 | 1:9,350,407 | 109,555 |
| Argentina | 4 | 1:10,685,854 | 219,200 |
| Denmark | 4 | 1:1,411,179 | 60,800 |
| Mexico | 3 | 1:41,375,402 | 71,397 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 10 | 1:442,987 | 15,290 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 14 | 1:1,741,098 | 55,534 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 197 | 1:254,917 | 21,039 |
Carls (989) may also be a first name.
Carls Demographics
Average Carls Salary in
United States
$42,024 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Carls Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Carls Come From? nationality or country of origin
Carls is carried by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Carls? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 134,574th most frequently occurring family name globally, borne by around 1 in 2,178,639 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 45 percent of Carls are found; 42 percent are found in Western Europe and 41 percent are found in Germanic Europe. Carls is also the 256,075th most frequent first name globally, held by 989 people.
The last name Carls is most widely held in Germany, where it is held by 1,370 people, or 1 in 58,763. In Germany it is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 31 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 23 percent live and Berlin, where 11 percent live. Apart from Germany this surname exists in 38 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 37 percent live and South Africa, where 10 percent live.
Carls Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Carls has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 634 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it contracted 43 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Carls Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Carls last name is primarily Catholic (90%) in Ireland.
In The United States those holding the Carls last name are 18.59% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 65.36% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Carls earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 11.22% more than the national average, earning R 264,312 per year; in United States they earn 2.61% less than the national average, earning $42,024 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.85% less than the national average, earning $47,769 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Carls
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