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Around the globe, Karabas (Karabas , Карабас ) is a rare predominantly masculine, but very infrequently female given name. The given name Karabas is characteristic of Kazakhstan, where it is a rare gender-neutral name, and India, where it is a very rare principally male, but very seldom girly name. More prevalently, Karabas is the last name as well as the forename.
Karabas is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Karabas Barabas , the character from Tolstoy's The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino.