Karï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Karï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Norway it is the 37th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Norwegian Kari, diminutive of Katrine.
- FIFinland1 in 135(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 246
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 462as Claire
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 Karï itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #257 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- 1 in 135 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 named Carrie, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Carrie in US United States, CN China, Claire in GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland, Kari in NO Norway, FI Finland and קלייר in FR France.
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)
From Norwegian Kari, diminutive of Katrine.
Sources 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karï 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Carrie | 82 |
| US United States | #133 | 163,948as Claire | 1 in 2K | 163K | Carrie | 593 |
| GB United Kingdom | #42 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 462 | 7 | Claire | 399 |
| FR France | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 546 | 160K | קלייר | 19 |
| FI Finland | #57 | 41,301 | 1 in 135 | 57K | Kari | 68 |
| NO Norway | #37 | 22,263 | 1 in 246 | 72K | Kari | 114 |
| IE Ireland | #49 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 767 | — | Claire | 161 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 Karï mean, and where does it come from?
- From Norwegian Kari, diminutive of Katrine. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Karï a male or female name?
- Karï is a female 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 Karï have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Carrie in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Karï most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karï is densest in Finland — about 1 in 135 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karï?
- In Finland, the national register counted 41,301 people named Karï, about 1 in 135 residents.
- How common is Karï compared with other names?
- In Norway, Karï is the 37th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karï?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kar%C3%AFThe 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, “Karï” — the 37th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.