Feminine dossier · first seen 1932

Karel

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Karel
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1939

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1932Peak 19392024

Peak year

1939

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,208

Karel has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1939, when 69 girls were named Karel.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,208 Americans have been named Karel and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1932.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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