Karem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Origin unidentified
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɹɛm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 11K
- BRBrazil1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
7,260 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Origin unidentified.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karem counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 7,260 | 1 in 29K | 10K | Karem | 81 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Karem | 48 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,685 | 1 in 10K | 1.7K | Karem | 28 |
| CL Chile | #825 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Karem | 61 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 2 | Karem | 60 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Karem | 12 |
| BO Bolivia | #312 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Karem | 24 |
7,260 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Karem is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mad, founder, be engulfed, of ships
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In poz-wmp-pro, capsize, of a boat; sink
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kzi, capsize, of a boat
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In lnd, capsizing
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sas, to sink
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karem da Silvab. 1979BRBrazilian athletics competitor
- Karem Escobarb. 1998COColombian actress
- Karem Jaberb. 2000ILArab-Israeli association footballer
- Karem Zoabib. 2006ILArab-Israeli football player
- Karem Yoli Tucto SalinasPEPeruvian physicist
- Karem H. AlzoubiJOresearcher
- Lesly Chávez RimachePEnot in their usual namePeruvian dentist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 10K | #2,155 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.2K | #2,117 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.7K | #691 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 107 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 52 | #2,117 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #119 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Karem mean, and where does it come from?
- Origin unidentified. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Karem?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɹɛm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Karem a male or female name?
- Karem is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Karem have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Karem, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karem.
- Where is Karem most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karem is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karem?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,260 people named Karem in 2022, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Karem compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Karem is the 312th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karemThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Karem” — the 312th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.