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Also Flemish: http://www.names.be/jongensnamen.html?met=Karel&sort=beldesc
Also used in Scandinavia: https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Karel
Carolus Adrianus Johannes "Karel" Kreutz is a Dutch orchidologist, botanical writer and taxonomist, currently affiliated with the Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis in Leiden, Netherlands. He is regarded as an exceptionally experienced orchidologist, and has published orchid floras of Cyprus, Turkey, Rhodes, Crimea, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, and is currently preparing a major overview in ten volumes of all orchid taxa in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, employing modern taxonomy, nomenclature and research techniques.
Also an Estonian variant of Kaarel: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel
My name is Karel and it is pronounced Kah-relle (emphasis on the second syllable). Research has shown me as a woman's name it means 'woman of strength, joyful song'. Some people do pronounce it as "Carol", ergo the meaning "joyful song - as in a Christmas Carol". The strength aspect comes from it also being a man's name - meaning "Strong Man".
Karel Abraham is a Czech motorcycle racer, currently racing in MotoGP.
Hi! I help a "special" first grader in Ohio who has the name Corell. I showed him this, and all he had to say is, "I am not a nerd!" He thinks his name means "I'm an artist." He just got an award for his drawings of trucks today at school.(05/25/2016).
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.
This name is also used in Limburgish. The Limburgish pronunciation is the same as the Dutch pronunciation.
Filmmaker Karel Reisz is a famous bearer. He directed movies as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", "Isadora" or "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
Famous Bearer: Karel Capek, a Czech playwright who coined the term "robot" in his play Rossum's Universal Robots.
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 bearers - Karel Roden and Karel Gott.
Karel is the swordsmaster with the title of Sword Demon in Fire Emblem by Nintendo.
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]

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