Karú
given name · Latin script
Karú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: the cousin of Moses.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 28Mfew records
- ARArgentina≈1 in 29Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈8 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Karu in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, MX Mexico and 2 more.
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)the cousin of Moses
Cited for this meaning 3
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karú 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Karú mean, and where does it come from?
- the cousin of Moses Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names and 1 other source.
- In which country does Karú have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8 people named Karú in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karu.
- How common is the name Karú?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Karú, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kar%C3%BAThe 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, “Karú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.