Karl
[kɑːrl]Meaning
German and Scandinavian form of Charles
Background Story
Karl is the German and Scandinavian form of Charles, from Germanic and a doublet of Charles. It was the name of seven rulers of the Franks and the Holy Roman Empire, a beatified emperor of Austria, and ten kings of Sweden. It is used in Catalan, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Irish and Italian.
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