Karel
Last seen for girls in 2009 at #11,459 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 66.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1939 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,208since 1932
Karel over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,610 | 22 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,479 | 13 | |
| 2021 | — | #10,799 | 6 | |
| 2020 | — | #12,022 | 5 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | — | #12,156 | 5 | |
| 2017 | — | #12,246 | 5 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,816 | 8 | |
| 2015 | — | #9,568 | 7 | |
| 2014 | — | #12,108 | 5 | |
| 2013 | — | #9,655 | 7 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,559 | 10 | |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | — | #8,139 | 9 | |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | — | #8,324 | 9 | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | — | |
| 2006 | — | #6,460 | 12 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,278 | 15 | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | — | #5,942 | 8 | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | — | #3,915 | 12 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #2,744 | 20 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #2,364 | 26 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #2,539 | 23 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #2,070 | 32 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #2,307 | 26 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,881 | 35 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #1,985 | 31 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #2,218 | 25 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,530 | 20 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,280 | 23 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | #1,623 | 39 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #1,344 | 52 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,641 | 35 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | #1,611 | 35 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #1,550 | 36 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #1,564 | 35 | #2,606 | 9 |
| 1948 | #1,648 | 32 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #1,270 | 51 | #3,370 | 6 |
| 1946 | #1,559 | 32 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,418 | 32 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,364 | 35 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,527 | 30 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #1,471 | 31 | #2,712 | 8 |
| 1941 | #1,335 | 33 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,010 | 50 | #3,459 | 5 |
| 1939 | #838 | 69 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | #1,703 | 21 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,101 | 15 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | #3,645 | 5 |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1933 | #2,688 | 10 | — | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
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| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Karel! It came in at #4,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Karel
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2009
- Biggest jump: 865 spots in 1939 (#1,703 → #838)
- Biggest drop: 172 spots in 1940 (#838 → #1,010)
- Debuted 1932
- Peaked 1939 at #838 (69 births)
- Births halved by 1941, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1939
- Highest: 1 in 15,893 girls born in 1939 were named Karel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 204,124 girls born in 2009 (0.00%)
- 29.9% of all girls named Karel (361) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2007, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 143 | #838 (1939) | #2,769 |
| 1940s | 361 | #1,010 (1940) | #1,417 |
| 1950s | 331 | #1,344 (1953) | #1,866 |
| 1960s | 194 | #2,070 (1961) | #3,092 |
| 1970s | 41 | #5,061 (1970) | #7,529 |
| 1980s | 41 | #7,398 (1984) | #8,704 |
| 1990s | 57 | #7,514 (1995) | #9,865 |
| 2000s | 40 | #11,459 (2009) | #13,503 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Karel in 1939
Top girls' names in 1939
Top boys' names in 1939
More about 1939
girls
1,096,612 girls got a published name in 1939; 1 in 15,893 of them was named Karel, which outranked 83.1% of the 4,950 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,106,852 boys got a published name in 1939; 1 in 158,122 of them was named Karel, which outranked 28.7% of the 3,968 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).