How to write “Carl or Karl” in Korean

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What Korean friends call you

• 칼아 ka-ra — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 칼 씨 kal-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Carl

• 칼 125 (100%)

Korean labels of 125 people named Carl on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

Well-known people named Carl or Karl, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Carl Sagan — 칼 세이건
• Karl Popper — 칼 포퍼
• Carl Reiner — 칼 라이너
• Carl Sandburg — 칼 샌드버그

146,265 babies were named Carl in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 302nd most common name.

Block by block

• 칼 = ㅋ + ㅏ + ㄹ · 7 strokes
  • ㅋ 키읔 (k) · 2 strokes
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes

  Also in 칼: Scarlett 스칼렛 · Carla 칼라 · Carly 칼리

More names: Carolyn 캐럴린 · Janet 재닛 · Danny 대니 · Rhonda 론다 · Roger 로저

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