Around the world, Karkar (كركر 
, Karkar 
) is a common epicene forename. The first name Karkar is habitual in Egypt, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, Sudan, where it is quite a rare dominantly male, but infrequently feminine name, and Iraq, where it is quite a rare predominantly male, but scarcely girly name. Also, Karkar is the last name as well as the forename.