Karian

loc · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 475K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 540K
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 728K

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)

189 people, 2020

Sources
125 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 475K (inferred from the name graph)

Puerto Rico, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kari-An in US United States, CA Canada.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karian 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 Karian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1891 in 1.8M167Kari-An125
BR Brazil591 in 3.6M59——
NL Netherlands321 in 540K32—6
CL Chile≈16 est.≈1 in 1.2M1——
CA Canada≈11 est.≈1 in 3.6M—Kari-An11
PR Puerto Rico≈7 est.≈1 in 475K5—3
UY Uruguay≈5 est.≈1 in 728K1——
GY Guyana11 in 750K1—1

189 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling karian. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)

Karian is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Karïan, Kárian, Kãrian

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Karián

  • Thai surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written กาเรียน, Karien, คารอน, คารีอัน, คารอิน

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Кариан, Каріан

32 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)

Karian 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.

  • In Basque, KARIAN . (Precedido de gen.). Con ocasión de, con motivo de . Maizago gertatzen dena, dolu baten karian duelarik apezak leku xaharrerat etortzeko parada. Larre ArtzainE 289.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Karian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000149#109,915
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010145#119,508
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020138#129,045
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20075#76,641
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

In which country does Karian have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 189 people named Karian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Kari-An.
How common is the name Karian?
In the United States, the national register counted 189 people named Karian in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million 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, “Karian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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