# Carel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/carel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 226 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 166 / 60 (27% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 5 | 5,182 |
| 1937 | 7 | 3,489 |
| 1940 | 6 | 3,918 |
| 1944 | 7 | 3,732 |
| 1945 | 7 | 3,710 |
| 1947 | 5 | 5,398 |
| 1948 | 6 | 4,731 |
| 1949 | 11 | 3,211 |
| 1959 | 6 | 5,628 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 9 | 2,588 |
| 1936 | 5 | 3,618 |
| 1938 | 8 | 2,677 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,552 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,519 |
| 1941 | 6 | 3,195 |
| 1942 | 5 | 3,633 |
| 1947 | 5 | 3,791 |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,616 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,118 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,099 |
| 2006 | 6 | 10,876 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,097 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9,919 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,132 |

## People named Carel

- Carel Struycken, Dutch actor
- Carel Eiting, Dutch association football player
- Carel Visser, Dutch sculptor (1928-2015)
- Klaas Carel Faber, Dutch collaborator (1922–2012)
- Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet (1877-1924)
- Carel Reyniersz, Dutch Governor-General of the VOC (1604-1653)
- Carel van Schaik, Dutch primatologist
- Carel Weeber, Dutch architect (1937-2025)
- Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor (1788–1856), owner/creator of the album amicorum of Carel Sirardus
- Carel Anton Fodor, Dutch conductor
- Carel Vosmaer, Dutch lawyer, court clerk, art historian, art collector, writer and poet (1826-1888)
- Carel Gabriel Cobet, Dutch linguist and classical philologist (1813-1889)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.