Karasik

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a diminutive of karas ‘crucian carp’ (see Karas), presumably a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisher or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish

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

/kɝˈɑsɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Karasik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 640K(measured from records)
  • MDMoldova≈1 in 35K
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 51K

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.

United States (measured from records)

520 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
186 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KarasikLatin(measured from records)
קראסיקHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 a diminutive of karas ‘crucian carp’ (see Karas), presumably a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisher or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish. As a Jewish name it is mainly an ornamental name.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karasik 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 Karasik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5201 in 640K520Karasik186
UZ Uzbekistan≈250 est.≈1 in 122K—Karasik1
IL Israel≈170 est.≈1 in 51K—Karasik27
AO Angola≈150 est.≈1 in 211K—Karasik1
MD Moldova≈97 est.≈1 in 35K—Karasik2
JM Jamaica≈7 est.≈1 in 415K—Karasik1

520 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)

Karasik is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Карасик, Карасік, Karasyk

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḳarasiḳ

35 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)

Karasik is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from a derivative of the personal name Karel.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)

1920194019601980Yuli Karasik, b. 1923Paul Karasik, b. 1956Konstantin Karasik, b. 1976

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)

FormalDear Karasik,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Karasik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010520#41,799
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000492#41,657
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020481#47,529
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Karasik mean, and where does it come from?
from a diminutive of karas ‘crucian carp’ (see Karas), presumably a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisher or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Karasik?
A machine transcription gives /kɝˈɑsɪk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Karasik have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 520 people named Karasik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karasik.
How common is the name Karasik?
In the United States, the national register counted 520 people named Karasik in 2010, about 1 in 640 thousand residents.

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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, “Karasik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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