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Baby name
Karl
Boy
Origin of the name
Karl is the German form of Charles, from the Germanic, “free man.”
Classic name
100,836births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 135rank at its peak, in 1960
Where babies named Karl are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Karl is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Karl is most common in Alaska (1.8 times), Wisconsin (1.8) and Utah (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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