Karia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: village

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kəɹiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Karia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 163K
  • NONorway1 in 304K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

188 people, 2010

Sources
125 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 163K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

village

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karia 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.

Where Karia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1881 in 1.8M402Karia125
NL Netherlands1061 in 163K106Karia7
IN India611 in 22M61Karia70
NO Norway181 in 304K40—1
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15—3
SE Sweden81 in 1.3M8—1
BE Belgium71 in 1.7M7Karia2

188 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Karia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kária

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United Kingdom, Kenya, India

    Also written Kàrìa, Kâriâ, Karïa, Kâria, Kåria

  • Arabic surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Algeria

    Also written Kàrià, Kãrîå, Kãrïā, Kåriä, Kárîå

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Karia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, partitive singular of kari

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of kari

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Karia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020402#23,590
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—40#13,445
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199116—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198916—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200014—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199413—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197813—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012#23,590
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201512—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201312—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200212—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200112—

Reference works 3

  • 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)

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

How do you pronounce Karia?
A machine transcription gives /kəɹiə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Karia mean, and where does it come from?
village Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Karia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 188 people named Karia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karia.
Where is Karia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karia is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 163 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Karia?
In the United States, the national register counted 188 people named Karia in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Karia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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