The Most Popular Names. On this page you will find lists of the most popular given names in various regions of the world. Typically the information is compiled by a national statistics agency, though in some cases it comes from another source.
Carlos /car-los/ [2 sylls.] as a boys' name is pronounced KAR-lohs. It is of Spanish and Old German origin, and the meaning of Carlos is free man. Variant of Charles.See also Carl. Film directors Carlos Saura, and Carl Ponti.arlos is a very popular first name for men (#81 out of 1220, Top 7%) and also a very popular surname for all people (#2718 out of 150436, Top 2%).
In the U.S. in 2014, it ranked 117 in baby name popularity for boys with 3402 occurrences. Less than 5 girls were given the name. View the Carlos Name Popularity Page to see how the popularity trend for Carlos has changed since 1880, or to compare the popularity of Carlos to other names.any Spanish given names honor the Virgin Mary. Girls are frequently given the name Maria or Maria followed by a suffix name and boys are sometimes given the name Maria as a middle name. Girls with Marian composite names may use the suffix portion of their name as their main informal name.