Abdulkarim

given name · Latin script

Meaning: servant of the Generous

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

Abdulkarim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 608K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 15K
  • DKDenmark1 in 92K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

702 people

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Abdul-Karim in SE Sweden.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

servant of the Generous

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Abdulkarim 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 Abdulkarim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden—7021 in 15K702Abdul-Karim23
US United States—5471 in 608K695Abdulkarim106
DK Denmark—641 in 92K79—1
FI Finland—551 in 101K97—4
ES Spain—291 in 1.7M33—9
NL Netherlands—231 in 751K26—15
BH Bahrain#109———Abdulkarim39

702 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling abdulkarim. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Abdulkarim is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Philippines, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Abdul-Karim, Abdulkärim, Äbdůlkarim, Abdulkaerim, Abdülkarim

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, India

    Also written Abdul-Karim

  • Hindi given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Türkiye, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Abdul-Karim, Abdülkarim

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Abdul-Karim, Ăbdu̇lkărim, Abdulkarīm

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Philippines

    Also written Abdul-Karim

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Nigeria

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Abdul-Karim, Abdülkarim

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek

    Also written Abdülkarim

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Tanzania, Syria

    Also written Abdul-Karim

56 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)

Abdulkarim is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • servant of the bountiful

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

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)

500100015002000At-Ta'i, b. 932Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri, b. 986Al-Shahrastani, b. 1086Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi, b. 1859Mohammed Abdul Karim, b. 1863Abu Salma, b. 1909Abd al-Karim Qasim, b. 1914Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi, b. 1934Abdul Karim Soroush, b. 1945Abdelkarim Hassan, b. 1993

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 48 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Abdulkarim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—702#2,173
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020547#19,367
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019348—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020346—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018334—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017313—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016282—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015208—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—97#3,088
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—64#1,964
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—46#6,051
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—38—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Abdulkarim mean, and where does it come from?
servant of the Generous Recorded by African Muslim Names.
Is Abdulkarim a male or female name?
Abdulkarim is a male 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 Abdulkarim have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 702 people named Abdulkarim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Abdul-Karim.
Where is Abdulkarim most common?
Abdulkarim is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Abdulkarim?
In Sweden, the national register counted 702 people named Abdulkarim, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
How common is Abdulkarim compared with other names?
In Bahrain, Abdulkarim is the 109th most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.

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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, “Abdulkarim” — the 109th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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