Karoui
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaʀwi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karoui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2.7K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 99K
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karoui 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Karoui | 22 |
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 112 | Karoui | 180 |
| MA Morocco | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Karoui | 5 |
| IT Italy | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 483K | — | Karoui | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 824K | — | Karoui | 38 |
| BE Belgium | 60 | 1 in 195K | 60 | Karoui | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | Karoui | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Hamed Karouib. 1927TNTunisian politician (1927-2020)
- Nicole El Karouib. 1944FRFrench mathematician
- Slah Karouib. 1951TNTunisian association football player
- Nabil Karouib. 1963TNTunisian businessman and politician
- Rym Karouib. 1967TNTunisian plastic artist
- Fayçal Karouib. 1971FRFrench conductor
- Hakim El Karouib. 1971FRFrench essayist and scholar
- Wassim Karouib. 1996TNTunisian association football player
- Ghazi KarouiTNTunisian businessman and politician
- Emna Mansour KarouiTNTunisian politician
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 14 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 123 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 118 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 112 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 60 | #22,923 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 43 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Karoui?
- A machine transcription gives /kaʀwi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Karoui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Karoui in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karoui.
- How common is the name Karoui?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 60 people named Karoui in 2008, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Karoui?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karouiThe 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, “Karoui”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.