About the name Carles
Carles belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Carles first appears in Social Security records in 1912. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1716 in 1928, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 681 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.