Charlesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Frankish and Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (“free man”); compare the English word churl and the German Kerl. In reference to the Ecuadorian island, a clipping of the original name King Charles's Island, granted in honor of Charles II of England.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /t͡ʃɑɹlz/, /t͡ʃɑ˞lz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /t͡ʃɑːlz/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)lz

固有名詞

Charles (countable and uncountable, plural Charleses)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Charles the Great / Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French / Beyond the river Sala, in the year / Eight hundred five.

   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Thou Art the Man:

     […] there never was any person named Charles who was not an open, manly, honest, good-natured, and frank-hearted fellow, with a rich, clear, voice, that did you good to hear it, and an eye that looked at you always straight at the face, as much as to say: "I have a clear conscience myself, am afraid of no man, and am altogether above doing a mean action." And thus all the hearty, careless, 'walking gentlemen' of the stage are very certain to be called Charles.

   • 1988, Ed McBain, The House That Jack Built, page 212:

     […] spoke the way the English do, funny, you know? His name was Roger, I think. Or Nigel. Something like that." "How about Charles?" "Charles? Well, yes, it could have been.Charles does sound English, doesn't it? Their prince is named Charles, isn't he?"

   • 2019 August 23, Chris Cillizza, “How the Koch brothers fundamentally changed modern politics”, in CNN‎:

     That the Koch organization can even attempt this pivot to a less political and more bipartisan stance speaks to the power of what Charles and David Koch built.

   • 2025 August 14, Anna Betts, “Alleged DC sandwich-thrower worked at justice department, attorney general says”, in The Guardian‎:

     In a statement posted on social media, Bondi said that the man, identified in court documents as 37-year-old Sean Charles Dunn, has since been fired. […] On Wednesday night, the FBI director, Kash Patel, said that Dunn had been charged with felony assault on a federal officer.

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. A hamlet in Brayford parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6832).
4. A neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
5. Synonym of Floreana: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.

使用する際の注意点

Common given name since the Middle Ages.

同意語

• Chas. (abbreviation)

派生語

関連する語

• diminutives: Charley, Charlie, Chuck, Chucky, Chuckie, Chas, Chaz, Chip
• variants: Carroll, Cathal
• feminine forms: Carla, Carly, Carol, Carole, Carolina, Caroline, Callie, Carrie, Charlene, Charlotte
• alternate derivation paths: Carlo, Carlos, Carl, Karl
• adjectival forms: Carolean, Caroline

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Charles is the 548 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 61,211 individuals. Charles is most common among Black (53.0%) individuals.

アナグラム

• Lachers, clasher, larches, raschel