Carlo

Where Carlo comes from

From Italian Carlo, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic. Doublet of Charles, Carl, and Carlos.
— Wiktionary's entry for Carlo
  • Italian
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1707
    Carlo Goldoni born
    Italian playwright
  2. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,074 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1923
    Peak, #470
    167 babies named Carlo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #679.
  5. 1959
    Carlo Ancelotti born
    Italian football player and manager
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Charles.
Namesakes
  • Carlo Goldoni · Italian playwright, 1707–1794
  • Carlo Ancelotti · Italian football player and manager, born 1959
  • Carlo Collodi · Italian writer, 1826–1890
  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi · President of Italy from 1999 to 2006, 1920–2016
  • Carlo Rubbia · Italian particle physicist, born 1934

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.