Karim

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Muslim; from a personal name based on Arabic karlm ‘kind’, ‘generous’

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

Karim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 278(inferred from the name graph)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 409
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 416

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.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈170,000 people, est.

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
391 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 278 (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KarimLatin(measured from records)
КаримCyrillic(measured from records)
კარიმGeorgian(measured from records)
ΚαρίμGreek(measured from records)
카림Hangul(measured from records)

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)

Muslim; from a personal name based on Arabic karlm ‘kind’, ‘generous’. Al-KarTm ‘the Generous’ is an attribute of Allah. The word is found in compound names such as 'Abdul-Karun ‘servant of the Most Generous’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Karim is read(measured from records)

Karim is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French31%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Karim in French.

  • Arabic19%

    generous

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

    benevolent

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • English11%

    Arabic: noble, generous

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  • Hindi7.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Karim in Hindi.

  • Spanish6.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Karim in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karim 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 Karim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#73≈170,000 est.≈1 in 598listedKarim198
DZ Algeria#5≈150,000 est.≈1 in 278—Karim94
MA Morocco#58≈87,000 est.≈1 in 409—Karim151
FR France—≈59,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K39K—12
TN Tunisia#29≈28,000 est.≈1 in 416—Karim91
ES Spain—6,4731 in 7.7K6.5KKarim93

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

Karim is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name76 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written করিম, Korim, Kareem, Krim, Krima

  • French given name92 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Morocco, Algeria, Belgium

    Also written Kàrim, Kàrîm, Karîm, Kàrïm, Kãrîm

  • Indonesian given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Karim', Kãrįm, Kāřìm, Ķãřįm, Ķaŕïm

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Kārim, Karīṃ, Kārīm, Kărim, Karīm

  • Portuguese given name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Portugal

    Also written Kárim, Kàrim, Karím, Kärîm, Kãrïm

  • Russian given name114 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh

    Also written Карим, Керим, Кәрім, Карім, Kareem

83 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)

Karim is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Muslim; from a personal name based on Arabic karlm ‘kind’, ‘generous’. Al-KarTm ‘the Generous’ is an attribute of Allah. The word is found in compound names such as 'Abdul-Karun ‘servant of the Most Generous’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Swedish, Karim är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’generös, ädel’. Kerem och Kerim är turkiska former.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • ‘Noble’, ‘generous’. Feminine form: Karima.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first 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)

17001800190020002100Karim Khan zand, b. 1705Aga Khan IV, b. 1936Karim Massimov, b. 1965Karim Aïnouz, b. 1966Karim Ahmad Khan, b. 1970Karim Matmour, b. 1985Karim Benzema, b. 1987Karim Ansarifard, b. 1990Riyad Mahrez, b. 1991Karim Adeyemi, b. 2002

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 136 sources across 71 countries.

Official registers attesting Karim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202439K#399
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6.5K#741
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.5K#379

Reference works 8

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 Karim mean?
Recorded meaning: Muslim; from a personal name based on Arabic karlm ‘kind’, ‘generous’.
Where does the name Karim come from?
Muslim; from a personal name based on Arabic karlm ‘kind’, ‘generous’. Al-KarTm ‘the Generous’ is an attribute of Allah. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Is Karim a male or female name?
Karim 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.
What are other forms of the name Karim?
In the etymology graph, Ekrem, Kerem and Kerim are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Karim have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 174 thousand people named Karim in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karim.
How common is the name Karim?
In Spain, the national register counted 6,473 people named Karim, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
How common is Karim compared with other names?
In Egypt, Karim is the 73rd most common given name of 107,792 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, “Karim” — the 73rd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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