Three kings of England, an emperor who split Europe, a monarch crowned at Westminster in 2023 with bees stitched into his robes. Charles carries the weight of Carolingian courts and drawing-room cousins, descending from the Germanic karl, a word for a free man, a commoner, which is the quiet joke threaded through a name worn by emperors. It peaked in American registers in the 1880s and has never really left, currently sitting at 51 and given to roughly one in 307 boys. Dickens, Darwin, Mingus, Schulz. A name with handshake and gravity both.
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1880 to today
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