Karimi
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Karimi is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. In Egypt it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Muslim; adjectival derivative of Karim, meaning ‘relating to Karim’.
- AFAfghanistan1 in 578◐
- EGEgypt1 in 795
- NGNigeria1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈72K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 330 ●
- 1 in 1.7K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
354K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kareem in US United States, EG Egypt, NG Nigeria and 7 more, Karam in IN India, SY Syria, PK Pakistan and 3 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●
Muslim; adjectival derivative of Karim, meaning ‘relating to Karim’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 142,390 | 58K rec. | — | 5.6K | Karam | 121 |
| IR Iran | — | 49,855 | 5.2K rec. | — | — | Karimi | 76 |
| EG Egypt | #85 | 49,355 | 25K rec. | — | — | Kareem | 153 |
| FR France | — | 39,180△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 39K | — | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | #205 | 34,371 | 55K rec. | — | listed | Kareem | 74 |
| US United States | — | 13,087 | 125K rec. | 1 in 25K | 13K | Kareem | 330 |
| SY Syria | #331 | 11,571 | 15K rec. | — | — | Karam | 44 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 10,188 | 12K rec. | — | — | Kareem | 63 |
| PK Pakistan | #468 | 9,201 | 556 rec. | — | listed | Karam | 40 |
| TH Thailand | — | 8,944 | 8.2K rec. | — | #15,656 | คารม | 55 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,260 | 0 rec. | 1 in 29K | 10K | — | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 6,567 | 7.8K rec. | — | — | Kareem | 19 |
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Languages●
- English56K41%
- Swahili30K22%
- Persian11K8%
- Pashto6.2K5%
- French5.3K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 55,751 | 41% |
| Swahili | 29,735 | 22% |
| Persian | 11,307 | 8% |
| Pashto | 6,241 | 5% |
| French | 5,339 | 4% |
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●
Karimi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Child given the name of a successful farmer
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
St liberality; beneficence;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Hausa, generous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 400 |
| 2019 | 412 |
| 2020 | 433 |
| 2021 | 450 |
| 2022 | 476 |
| 2023 | 501 |
| 2024 | 516 |
| 2025 | 535 |
NO SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) — 8 years between 2018–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Babak Karimib. 1960IRIranian film editor and actor
- Farah Karimib. 1960NLDutch politician
- Niki Karimib. 1971IRIranian film director and actress
- Ali Karimib. 1978IRIranian footballer
- Sahraa Karimib. 1983AFAfghan film director
- Keywan Karimib. 1985IRIranian independent filmmaker of Kurdish descent
- Mandana Karimib. 1988IRIndia-based Iranian actress and model
- Poyan Karimib. 1989SESwedish actor
- Javad Karimib. 1998IRIranian volleyball player
- Milad Karimib. 1999KZKazakhstani gymnast
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 44 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 140 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Karimi?
- We estimate roughly 72 thousand people bear Karimi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Karimi have the most bearers?
- Karimi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled karam.
- How common is Karimi compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Karimi is the 85th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Karimi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Muslim; adjectival derivative of Karim, meaning ‘relating to Karim’.
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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, “Karimi” — the 85th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.