Karmu
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Karmu is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Egypt it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.
- 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, Karimi in IR Iran, DE Germany, AU Australia and 4 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name 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 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi14K52%
- 11K40%
- Finnish5562%
- Indonesian3891%
- Estonian2541%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 14,148 | 52% |
| 10,955 | 40% | |
| Finnish | 556 | 2% |
| Indonesian | 389 | 1% |
| Estonian | 254 | 1% |
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●
Karmu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, genitive singular of karm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, cold and windy
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 9 |
| 1924 | 3 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1926 | 3 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1931 | 8 |
| 1932 | 8 |
| 1933 | 12 |
| 1934 | 11 |
| 1935 | 6 |
| 1936 | 12 |
| 1937 | 14 |
| 1938 | 8 |
| 1939 | 7 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1941 | 18 |
| 1942 | 28 |
| 1943 | 42 |
| 1944 | 17 |
| 1945 | 37 |
| 1946 | 23 |
| 1947 | 42 |
| 1948 | 38 |
| 1949 | 33 |
| 1950 | 43 |
| 1951 | 40 |
| 1952 | 46 |
| 1953 | 48 |
| 1954 | 44 |
| 1955 | 51 |
| 1956 | 48 |
| 1957 | 47 |
| 1958 | 65 |
| 1959 | 64 |
| 1960 | 59 |
| 1961 | 48 |
| 1962 | 58 |
| 1963 | 83 |
| 1964 | 78 |
| 1965 | 61 |
| 1966 | 75 |
| 1967 | 73 |
| 1968 | 80 |
| 1969 | 67 |
| 1970 | 83 |
| 1971 | 83 |
| 1972 | 68 |
| 1973 | 77 |
| 1974 | 72 |
| 1975 | 78 |
| 1976 | 83 |
| 1977 | 54 |
| 1978 | 63 |
| 1979 | 60 |
| 1980 | 54 |
| 1981 | 91 |
| 1982 | 70 |
| 1983 | 82 |
| 1984 | 61 |
| 1985 | 60 |
| 1986 | 48 |
| 1987 | 83 |
| 1988 | 53 |
| 1989 | 65 |
| 1990 | 59 |
| 1991 | 75 |
| 1992 | 71 |
| 1993 | 75 |
| 1994 | 67 |
| 1995 | 45 |
| 1996 | 25 |
| 1997 | 44 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 4 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 2 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 91 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 146 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Karmu?
- We estimate roughly 72 thousand people bear Karmu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Karmu have the most bearers?
- Karmu is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled karam.
- How common is Karmu compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Karmu is the 85th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Karmu a male or female name?
- Karmu 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.
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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.
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, “Karmu” — the 85th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.