Kartik
given name · Latin script
Meaning: one who bestows courage and happiness
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Kartik is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 22Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 1.3M
- VNVietnam≈1 in 18Mfew records
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 Kartik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 named Karthik, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Karthik in US United States, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 4 more.
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)one who bestows courage and happiness.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kartik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #347 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 188 | Kartik | 270 |
| BD Bangladesh | #936 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Kartik | 33 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 60K | register #22 | Karthik | 32 |
| US United States | — | 4,452as Karthik | 1 in 75K | 4.4K | Karthik | 319 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Karthik | 52 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Karthik | 36 |
| SG Singapore | #352 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Karthik | 61 |
| OM Oman | #276 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Karthik | 16 |
| BH Bahrain | #225 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Karthik | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 40 | 1 in 1.3M | 40 | Kartik | 16 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)- Kartik Kumar Ghoshb. 1903INOdia actor (1903-1997)
- Kartik Oraonb. 1924INIndian politician (1924–1981)
- Kartik Seshadrib. 1957INIndian musician
- Kartik Singhb. 1973USIndian American film director and actor
- Kartik Shettyb. 1987INIndian actor and director
- Kartik Aaryanb. 1990INIndian actor
- Kartik Jindalb. 1998INbadminton player
- Kartik ChandranUSAmerican environmental engineer
- Kartik ShethUSresearcher
- Kartik SrinivasanUSAmerican physicist
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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
- Is Kartik a male or female name?
- Kartik is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Kartik mean, and where does it come from?
- one who bestows courage and happiness. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- In which country does Kartik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 222 thousand people named Karthik in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kartik?
- In Spain, the national register counted 40 people named Kartik, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Kartik compared with other names?
- In India, Kartik is the 347th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kartikThe 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, “Kartik” — the 347th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.