Abdulkarim
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abdulkarim is a given name, most frequently recorded in Syria. In Bahrain it is the 33rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: servant of the Generous.
- SYSyria1 in 4.5K◐
- SASaudi Arabia1 in 12K
- NGNigeria1 in 26K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- Sources
- 106 ●
- 1 in 15K ◐
across 9 countries
23K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Abdul-Karim in SE Sweden, GH Ghana, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.
Meaning & origin●
servant of the Generous
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #525 | 7,362 | 8.1K rec. | — | — | Abdulkarim | 30 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 2,808 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Abdulkarim | 39 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,376 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Abdulkarim | 16 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #681 | 1,843 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Abdulkarim | 104 |
| IN India | — | 1,442 | 310 rec. | — | 26 | Abdulkarim | 34 |
| SE Sweden | — | 702△ | 167 rec. | 1 in 15K | 702 | Abdul-Karim | 23 |
| US United States | — | 547 | 3.2K rec. | 1 in 608K | 695 | Abdulkarim | 106 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 476 | 536 rec. | — | — | Abdulkarim | 25 |
| LY Libya | #217 | 451 | 519 rec. | — | — | Abdulkarim | 28 |
| BH Bahrain | #33 | 323 | 137 rec. | — | — | Abdulkarim | 38 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 282 | 456 rec. | — | — | Abdulkarim | 61 |
| GH Ghana | — | 66 | 65 rec. | — | — | Abdul-Karim | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic19K29%
- Swahili9.9K15%
- English9.1K14%
- 8.6K13%
- Hindi7K11%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 19,138 | 29% |
| Swahili | 9,905 | 15% |
| English | 9,114 | 14% |
| 8,580 | 13% | |
| Hindi | 6,995 | 11% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Abdulkarim 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.
servant of the bountiful
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 3 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 3 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1933 | 4 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1937 | 8 |
| 1938 | 4 |
| 1939 | 6 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 14 |
| 1942 | 10 |
| 1943 | 8 |
| 1944 | 17 |
| 1945 | 7 |
| 1946 | 16 |
| 1947 | 15 |
| 1948 | 11 |
| 1949 | 8 |
| 1950 | 12 |
| 1951 | 16 |
| 1952 | 11 |
| 1953 | 14 |
| 1954 | 21 |
| 1955 | 19 |
| 1956 | 24 |
| 1957 | 20 |
| 1958 | 15 |
| 1959 | 20 |
| 1960 | 15 |
| 1961 | 22 |
| 1962 | 20 |
| 1963 | 22 |
| 1964 | 17 |
| 1965 | 16 |
| 1966 | 28 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 25 |
| 1969 | 23 |
| 1970 | 18 |
| 1971 | 19 |
| 1972 | 29 |
| 1973 | 21 |
| 1974 | 21 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 18 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 12 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 15 |
| 1981 | 17 |
| 1982 | 15 |
| 1983 | 19 |
| 1984 | 17 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 15 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 4 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1995 | 3 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2017 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 82 years between 1912–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- At-Ta'ib. 932IQnot in their usual nameAbbasid caliph (932-1003)
- Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrib. 986IRnot in their usual nametheologian
- Al-Shahrastanib. 1086AFnot in their usual namePersian historian of religions and Islamic scholar (1086–1153)
- Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdib. 1859IRnot in their usual nameIranian Grand Ayatollah (1859–1937)
- Mohammed Abdul Karimb. 1863INnot in their usual nameIndian royal domestic servant in the UK (1863–1909)
- Abu Salmab. 1909PSnot in their usual namePalestinian poet
- Abd al-Karim Qasimb. 1914IQnot in their usual nameIraqi Army brigadier, nationalist and first prime minister of Iraq after the fall of the monarchy
- Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashib. 1934YEnot in their usual namePresident of North Yemen (1934-2006)
- Abdul Karim Soroushb. 1945IRnot in their usual nameIranian writer and philosopher
- Abdelkarim Hassanb. 1993QAnot in their usual nameQatari footballer
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●
Attested in 46 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 702 | #2,173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 695 | #34,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 547 | #19,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 469 | #45,569 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 354 | #2,544 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 348 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 346 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 345 | #55,609 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 334 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 313 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 282 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 256 | #3,976 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 208 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abdulkarim?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Abdulkarim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abdulkarim have the most bearers?
- Abdulkarim is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled abdulkarim.
- How common is Abdulkarim compared with other names?
- In Syria, Abdulkarim is the 525th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
- Is Abdulkarim a male or female name?
- Abdulkarim 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.
- What does the name Abdulkarim mean?
- Recorded meaning: servant of the Generous
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abdulkarim” — the 525th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.