Kàrthik

given name · Latin script

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

Pronunciation:

Kàrthik is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: name of a god; one of twenty-seven stars in Hindu.

  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 5.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia≈1 in 6.5K
  • BHBahrain≈1 in 6.6Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kàrthik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈220,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
319 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

United Arab Emirates, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
KartikLatin(measured from records)
কার্তিকBengali(measured from records)
การทักThai(measured from records)
కరతకTelugu(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Karthik in US United States, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 4 more and Kartik in IN India, BD Bangladesh.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

name of a god; one of twenty-seven stars in Hindu

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kàrthik 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 Kàrthik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#347≈220,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K188Kartik270
BD Bangladesh#936≈7,900 est.≈1 in 22K—Kartik33
ID Indonesia—≈4,700 est.≈1 in 60Kregister #22Karthik32
US United States—4,4521 in 75K4.4KKarthik319
MY Malaysia—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 14K—Karthik52
AE United Arab Emirates—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 5.9K—Karthik36
SG Singapore#352≈890 est.≈1 in 6.8K—Karthik61
OM Oman#276≈440 est.≈1 in 12K—Karthik16
BH Bahrain#225≈240 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Karthik11

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kàrthik under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kàrthik mean, and where does it come from?
name of a god; one of twenty-seven stars in Hindu Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
Is Kàrthik a male or female name?
Kàrthik 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 Kàrthik have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 222 thousand people named Kàrthik in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kartik.
How common is the name Kàrthik?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,452 people named Kàrthik in 2020, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
How common is Kàrthik compared with other names?
In India, Kàrthik is the 347th most common given name of 3,760,348 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, “Kàrthik” — the 347th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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