Its source is ceorl, an Ancient Germanic name meaning
"Freeholder." The name Carli ranked 860th in popularity for
females of all ages in a sample of 2000-2003 Social Security
Administration statistics and 3278th in popularity for females
of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census. Though this name
appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a
small percentage of the general population. Of all the feminine
forms of Carl (and its equivalent Charles), the oldest is
probably Carolina, which developed in Latin as a feminine form
of Carolinus, itself an elaboration of Carolus. Carolus Magnus
was the Latin name of the first Holy Roman Emperor, a Germanic
leader known in the English-speaking world as Charlemagne
(French for ''Charles the Great''). He was crowned emperor in
800 A.D., after uniting much of central Europe and building a
relatively stable society out of the chaos that followed the
fall of Rome. Charlemagne's widespread fame gave rise to many
forms of his name in many languages. Each male