Karam

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Kareem in US United States, EG Egypt, NG Nigeria and 7 more, Karimi in IR Iran, DE Germany, AU Australia and 4 more and คารม in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Karam is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name109K records spelled Karam4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Morocco

  Also written Káram, Kărăm, Karām

• English given name50K records spelled Karam32 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Germany, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ķàŕàm, Kárám, Ķãřąm, Kàřåm, Ķaram

• Spanish given name19K records spelled Karam13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Karám, Kärăm, Kàram, Kârâm, Kãrâm

• French given name12K records spelled Karam17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Kàràm, Kàrám, Ķãřâm, Kårâm, Ķåŕåm

• Indonesian given name2.7K records spelled Karam7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Syria, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Kãrãm, Kāřäm, Käräm, Kařam, Ķåřām

• Norwegian Bokmål given name1.2K records spelled Karam10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Kàrâm, Kärām, Kåråm, Kãrām, Ķăŕam

52 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●

Karam 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 Arabic, generosity, bounty

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Swedish, Karam är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’storsinthet’.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Arabic, generosity, bounty, noble nature

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, magnanimity, generosity, blessing

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In iba, awash, capsized, wrecked, foundered (strictly, karam applies to boats or anything that floats, and means full of, or covered with water so as to be unmanageable)

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 100 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Karamchand Gandhib. 1822INnot in their usual nameFather of Mahatma Gandhi
• Qachaq Karimb. 1860AZnot in their usual nameQachaq (local rebel)
• Karam Singhb. 1884INAuthor, historian and Sikh scholar (1884–1930)
• Karam Ali Shahb. 1934PKPakistani politician (1934-2020)
• Karam Muhammad Zuhdib. 1952EGEgyptian politician
• Karam Hasanovb. 1969AZAzerbaijani politician
• Karam Gaberb. 1979EGOlympic wrestler
• Karam Alhamadb. 1990Syrian journalist
• Karam Natourb. 1992ILa visual artist.
• Karem Jaberb. 2000ILnot in their usual nameArab-Israeli association 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 461 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Karam?

We estimate roughly 72 thousand people bear Karam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Karam have the most bearers?

Karam is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled karam.

How common is Karam compared with other names?

In Egypt, Karam is the 85th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.

Is Karam a male or female name?

Karam 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 Karam mean?

Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic fcaram ‘generosity’, ‘bounty’.