Karel is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Karel is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Karel each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Karel will meet someone with the same name. So, Karel is a very special name!
If your name is Karel your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Karel never ranked higher than position 1,427 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their offspring Karel. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1939 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Karel because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Karel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Karel still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 13 times in the entire U.S. So, a Karel from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a quite popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the initial letters A and J are more common for first names.
With five letters, the name Karel 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.
Therefore: As 7.7% of all first names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Karel 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 Karel, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Rocket
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Karel
Karel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
R
E
L
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.
K
A
R
E
L
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. Karel sounds like this:
