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Baby name
Carl
Boy
Origin of the name
Carl is a form of Charles, like the German Karl, “free man.”
Classic name
504,827births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 48rank at its peak, in 1956
Where babies named Carl are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Carl is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Carl is most common in West Virginia (2.2 times), Arkansas (1.7) and Kentucky (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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