Karam

3,247 people in the United States were counted with the surname Karam in the 2020 census, making it the 9,574th most common in the country. That is about one person in 92,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,247
Rank: 9,574th
How common: 1 in 92,100
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Manipuri

From mni ꯀꯔꯥꯝ.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Karam described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.5%
Hispanic or Latino 7.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Surnames like Karam

Also a first name

Karam has been given to 1,631 American babies as a first name since 1977, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.