The Carels surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 100 people carried this name — #160,975 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 3,333,300 people counted. That is down 7% from 108 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 365 people named Carels live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in West Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 58 people named Carels.
6 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 6 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Carels in American newspapers,
1911–1918.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 12,751 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Carels.
- Cardoni 297 · U.S. census
- Cardoso 11,304 · U.S. census
- Cardot 225 · U.S. census
- Carducci 624 · U.S. census
- Care 726 · U.S. census
- Carel 522 · U.S. census
- Caretti 225 · U.S. census
- Carey 56,322 · U.S. census
- Caria 119 · U.S. census
- Carias 2,180 · U.S. census
- Carie 342 · U.S. census
- Carillo 4,774 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Carels is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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