Karl

Karl across 5 registrars

• Karl did not peak everywhere at once. It reached its best position in New Zealand in 1973 and in Republic of Ireland in 1989, 16 years later.
• Karl has fallen by ten or more places over ten years in 4 registrars.
• The longest ranked record is in Norway, from 1945 to 2025.

Each panel runs 1945 to 2025, top of the panel is #1 on a log scale, with guide lines at #1 and #100. Filled dot: best rank. Open dot: latest rank. Read from 5 official registrars with at least 10 ranked years. Where a registrar publishes separate lists by sex, the better rank for each year is used. A 'meaningful' move is 10 or more places. Lists start in different years, so an earlier first year shows the list is older, not that the name arrived there first, and a best rank in the first years of a list is not compared as a peak. Ranks show position, and cannot show why a name moved.

Where Karl is officially recorded

6 official registrars have recorded Karl, between 1945 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Its high point came 51 years earlier in Norway (1946) than in Northern Ireland (1997).