Comments for the name Karel

Karel is often used as a masculine name, but can also be used as a feminine name. Some feminine forms include: Karel, Karelle, Karèle, Karrelle, Karelle etc.

Pronounced: KAH-R-ÈLLE (French) or KUH-RZ-ÈLLE (Czech) or KA-R-ULL (English).

The Czech pronunciation given above is incorrect. It should be "KAH-rel." [noted -ed]

Karel is the swordsmaster with the title of Sword Demon in Fire Emblem by Nintendo.

Famous bearers - Karel Roden and Karel Gott.

A famous bearer is Karel Èapek, my dear author. His works are for example "War With the Newts", "How it is Made", "Krakatit", "Stories from a Pocke"t and many others.

Famous Bearer: Karel Capek, a Czech playwright who coined the term "robot" in his play Rossum's Universal Robots.

Filmmaker Karel Reisz is a famous bearer. He directed movies as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", "Isadora" or "The French Lieutenant's Woman".

This name is also used in Limburgish. The Limburgish pronunciation is the same as the Dutch pronunciation.

Karel Appel (1921-2006) was a Dutch abstract painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, designer and writer, regarded as the most powerful of the post-war generation of Dutch artists.