Karit

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Karit is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Estonia.

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Spellings & scripts(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

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

Sources 2

  • Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
  • Nordic Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karit counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Karit is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
EE Estonia—50—
SE Sweden—23—
ES Spain—8—
DK Denmark—3—
CR Costa Rica—1—
IN India—3—

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: Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)

Karit is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iraq

    Also written Kãrît, Ḵarīṭ

34 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)

Karit is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In nij, crunching, gnashing of the teeth

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Finnish, nominative plural of kari

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, scythe; sickle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Cebuano, a sickle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In otk, abuse, insult

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

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 7 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Karit
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—23#23,008
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8#134,434
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#282,211

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Karit a male or female name?
Karit is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Karit have the most bearers?
Karit is most frequently recorded in Estonia.

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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, “Karit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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