Nordic Names

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Karel

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Slavic form of Karl [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Nordic variant form of Karl [2] [4]

3) Dutch form of Karl [1]

4) Short form of Karelius [4]

Related Names

Karel ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Karell ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

See also Karelius

For female forms see Karella

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Karelsson Iceland

Female

Karelsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Karel
Genitive: Karels
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Karel
Genitive: Karelin
Partitive: Karelia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Karel
Accusative: Karel
Dative: Karel
Genitive: Karels
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Karel
Genitive: Karels
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Karel
Genitive: Karels

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 30 people were named Karel (percentage of first or only given name: 53 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
88 151 4 6 84 145
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 327 0 0
n.a.
 327
Iceland Iceland[9]
34 90
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[10]
27
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 27
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
56
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 56
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Karel.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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