This page shows the Carl (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2017. Each row below is one year in which Carl was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Carl's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Carl for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Carl appears in 34 of them, from 1974 to 2017, with 217 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1997, when the table records 12 babies given the name, at rank 211 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2017; years in which the table records no row for Carl for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2017. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20173733
20143680
20123669
20114544
20094549
20073595
20068326
20053535
20044438
20035361
19984358
199712211
19964359
19957258
199410222
19925298
19915298
19906256
19898218
19888212
19876232
19869198
19857221
19846215
19838198
19827215
19818198
198011170
19798192
19788192
19774257
19769182
19756222
197411172

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