Carlo is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Carlo is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1080 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,079 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 11,280 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Carlo. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
You may not know anyone named Carlo, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 30 states are home to men and boys named Carlo. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Carlo living in one state or another. If your name is Carlo and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New York, which has the most people named Carlo relative to the population, you still have to ask 4,447 men and boys their names before you hear Carlo as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Carlo is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Carlo and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Carlo, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Lion
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Carlo
Carlo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
R
L
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
R
L
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Carlo sounds like this:
