Karabin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rifle
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑˈɹɑbin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karabin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 53Kas Карабін(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 498Kas Карабин
- PLPoland1 in 56K
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 Karabin 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈830 named Карабін, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Карабін in UA Ukraine and Карабин in RU Russia.
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)
rifle
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karabin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Карабін | 30 |
| PL Poland | 681 | 1 in 56K | 347 | Karabin | 41 |
| US United States | 409 | 1 in 813K | 409 | Karabin | 15 |
| RU Russia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 498K | — | Карабин | 86 |
| AR Argentina | 109 | 1 in 417K | 109 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Karabin | 18 |
| NO Norway | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 15 | 1 in 282K | 15 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabinb. 1949PLPolish biologist
- Dan Karabinb. 1955SKOlympic wrestler
- Ladislav Karabinb. 1970SKSlovak ice hockey player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 409 | #50,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 409 | #48,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 404 | #54,978 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 347 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 347 | #9,371 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 334 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 334 | #9,934 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 109 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #37,744 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15 | #26,424 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 13 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Karabin mean, and where does it come from?
- rifle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Karabin?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑˈɹɑbin/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Karabin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 831 people named Карабін in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Karabin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karabin is densest in Poland — about 1 in 56 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karabin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 681 people named Karabin in 2026, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Karabin?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karabinThe 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, “Karabin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.