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All over the world, كارون (Karun , Caron , Charon ) is a common unisex given name. The first name كارون is habitual in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare dominantly feminine, but uncommonly male name, the United Kingdom, where it is quite a rare girly name, and India, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the United States. Likewise, كارون is the last name as well as the forename.
كارون is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Charon , the ferryman of Hades in Greek-Roman mythology; Charon ; Charon , the fictional character from Dungeons & Dragons; Charon , the character from Disney's Hercules and Charon , the operatic character in the opera Alceste (Händel), among other works.