Karym
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Karym is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 2.3Kas Карим(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 3.2Kas Карим
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 3.3Kas Карим
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 Karym itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
13,237 named Kareem, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est., as Карим
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Karim in US United States, ES Spain, SE Sweden and 1 more, Карим in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TJ Tajikistan and Керим in KG Kyrgyzstan.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karym 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,237as Kareem | 1 in 25K | 13K | Karim | 43 |
| RU Russia | #397 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | #150 | Карим | 144 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,473as Karim | 1 in 7.7K | 6.5K | Karim | 13 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #522 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 5.8K | Карим | 41 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #459 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Карим | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,988as Karim | 1 in 3.4K | 3K | Karim | 10 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #552 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Керим | 14 |
| GY Guyana | — | 160as Kareem | 1 in 4.7K | 373 | — | — |
| AF Afghanistan | #165 | — | — | — | Karim | 3 |
13,237 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kareem. 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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Karym El Daweyb. 2001NLDutch actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Karym a male or female name?
- Karym is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Karym have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kareem, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Karym?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,237 people named Kareem in 2020, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Karym compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Karym is the 165th most common given name of 21,469 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/karymThe 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, “Karym” — the 165th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.