Karri
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɛɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A less common form of Kari.
- INIndia1 in 45K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 973K
- FIFinland1 in 26K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
29,199 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A less common form of Kari.
Sources 2
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 29,199 | 1 in 45K | 29K | Karri | 119 |
| US United States | 342 | 1 in 973K | 4K | Karri | 150 |
| FI Finland | 213 | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 885K | 3 | Karri | 33 |
| FR France | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Karri | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Karri | 7 |
| EE Estonia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 18 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 446K | 29 | Karri | 6 |
29,199 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Karri 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 English, The tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western Australia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, curry (usually referring to the sauce, not the whole dish)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, illative singular of kari
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, curry (as above)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrk, carry
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)
- Unto Karrib. 1898FIFinnish poet
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4K | #4,547 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.9K | #546 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 202 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 198 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 197 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 186 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 184 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 177 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 161 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 159 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 156 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Karri mean, and where does it come from?
- A less common form of Kari. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Karri?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛɹi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Karri have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Karri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karri.
- Where is Karri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karri is densest in Finland — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karri?
- In India, the national register counted 29,199 people named Karri, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karriThe 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, “Karri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.