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Carlos is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the name that appears in English as Charles. The name derives from a Germanic word meaning "free man" and became popular in Europe because of the Frankish leader Charlemagne, whose name means "Charles the Great" and was rendered in Latin as Carolus Magnus. His Frankish name would have been Karl.

From Carolus with a few life-times of linguistic distortion, you easily get Carlos.

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