Carlos

Where Carlos comes from

Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Carlos. Doublet of Carl, Charles, and Karl.
— Wiktionary's entry for Carlos
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #425 among boys — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1928
    Carlos Fuentes born
    Mexican writer
  3. 1962
    Carlos Alazraqui born
    American actor
  4. 2001
    Peak, #59
    6,842 babies named Carlos — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #118.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Portuguese or from Spanish [in turn from Latin, in turn from the Germanic languages], equivalent to English Charles, Carl, or Karl.
Namesakes
  • Carlos Alazraqui · American actor, born 1962
  • Carlos Fuentes · Mexican writer, 1928–2012
  • Carlos Slim · Mexican business magnate and investor, born 1940
  • Carlos Tevez · Argentine association football player, born 1984
  • Carlos Santana · American guitarist, born 1947

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.