Carl Family History
- Carl Name Meaning
- Variant spelling of Dutch, German, and Scandinavian Karl. English: from the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Karl(i), ultimately from Germanic karl ‘man’, ‘freeman’. See also Charles. English: status name for a bondman or villein, from the vocabulary word karl, carl, which had various different meanings at various times: originally ‘man’, then ‘ordinary man’, ‘peasant’, and in Middle English specialized in the senses ‘free peasant’, ‘bondman’, ‘villein’, and ‘rough, churlish individual’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 540,084 Historical Documents with Carl on Ancestry
- 248,682 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 109,587 Census and Voter Lists
- 27,072 Military Records
- 18,160 Immigration Records
- 136,583 Member Trees
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Number of Carl families
 65 - 127  22 - 64 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carl families
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47 - 91 16 - 46 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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