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English
Etymology
From French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (“free man”); compare the English word churl and the German Kerl. In reference to the Ecuadorian island, a clipping of the original name King Charles's Island, granted in honor of Charles II of England.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Charles (countable and uncountable, plural Charleses)
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Charles the Great / Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French / Beyond the river Sala, in the year / Eight hundred five.
1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Thou Art the Man:[…] there never was any person named Charles who was not an open, manly, honest, good-natured, and frank-hearted fellow, with a rich, clear, voice, that did you good to hear it, and an eye that looked at you always straight at the face, as much as to say: "I have a clear conscience myself, am afraid of no man, and am altogether above doing a mean action." And thus all the hearty, careless, 'walking gentlemen' of the stage are very certain to be called Charles.
1988, Ed McBain, The House That Jack Built, page 212:[…] spoke the way the English do, funny, you know? His name was Roger, I think. Or Nigel. Something like that." "How about Charles?" "Charles? Well, yes, it could have been.Charles does sound English, doesn't it? Their prince is named Charles, isn't he?"
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- A hamlet in East and West Buckland parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6832).
- A neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
- Synonym of Floreana, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador.
Usage notes
Common given name since the Middle Ages.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- diminutives: Charley, Charlie, Chuck, Chucky, Chuckie, Chas, Chaz, Chip
- variants: Carroll, Cathal
- feminine forms: Carla, Carly, Carol, Carole, Carolina, Caroline, Callie, Carrie, Charlene, Charlotte
- alternate derivation paths: Carlo, Carlos, Carl, Karl
- adjectival forms: Carolean, Caroline
Translations
given name
- Albanian: Kërl, Karl
- Arabic: تْشَارْلْز m (tšārlz) (transliteration of English), شَارْل m (šārl) (transliteration of French)
- Aragonese: Carlos m
- Bengali: চার্লস (bn) (carloś)
- Breton: Charlez (br) m
- Catalan: Carles (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 查理 (zh) (Chálǐ), 查爾斯/查尔斯 (zh) (Chá'ěrsī)
- Czech: Karel (cs) m
- Danish: Karl, Carl
- Dutch: Karel (nl) m, Charel
- Esperanto: Karlo
- Estonian: Kaarel
- Finnish: Kaarle (fi), Kaarlo (fi)
- French: Charles (fr)
- Georgian: კარლო (ḳarlo), ჩარლზი (čarlzi), კარლი (ḳarli), კარლოსი (ḳarlosi)
- German: Karl (de)
- Greek: Κάρολος (el) m (Károlos), Τσαρλς (el) (Tsarls) (transliteration of English)
- Greenlandic: Kaali, Kaarali
- Hawaiian: Kale
- Hebrew: צ'ארלס
- Hindi: चार्ल्स (cārls)
- Hungarian: Károly (hu)
- Icelandic: Karl (is)
- Inuktitut: ᑦᓴᕐᓕᔅ (tsarlis)
- Irish: Séarlas m
- Italian: Carlo (it) m
- Japanese: チャールズ (Chāruzu) シャルル (Sharuru) (of French people)
- Korean: 찰스 (Chalseu)
- Latin: Carolus (la)
- Latvian: Kārlis m
- Lithuanian: Karolis m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Korl
- Macedonian: Чарлс m (Čarls)
- Maltese: Karlu m, Karmenu m, Karmena f
- Manx: Çhalse m
- Maori: Tāre
- Marathi: चार्ल्स m (cārlsa)
- Norman: Charles m, Charlot m
- Norwegian: Karl (no)
- Persian: چارلز (fa) (čârlz) (transliteration of English), شارل (fa) (šârl) (transliteration of French)
- Polish: Karol (pl) m
- Portuguese: Carlos (pt) m
- Romanian: Carol
- Russian: Карл (ru) m (Karl), Чарльз (ru) m (Čarlʹz) (transliteration of English), Шарль (ru) m (Šarlʹ) (transliteration of French)
- Scottish Gaelic: Teàrlach
- Serbo-Croatian: Charles m, Карло
- Sicilian: Carlu m, Carru m (obsolete)
- Slovak: Karol (sk) m
- Slovene: Kárel (sl) m
- Spanish: Carlos (es) m
- Swedish: Karl (sv)
- Ukrainian: Карл (Karl)
- Walloon: Tchåle (wa)
- Welsh: Siarl m
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Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Charles is the 548th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 61,211 individuals. Charles is most common among Black (53.0%) individuals.
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English Charles, from French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karlaz (“free man”).
Proper noun
Charles
- a male given name from French
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Charles.
French
Etymology
From Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Charles m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Charles
Derived terms
Descendants
Norman
Proper noun
Charles m
- a male given name
Synonyms
Related terms
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
See Charlon.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Charles m
- nominative of Charlon
Descendants
Portuguese
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Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French Charles or English Charles. Doublet of Carlos.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Charles m
- a male given name
Swedish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Charles c (genitive Charles)
- a male given name borrowed from English and French