Karim

At the 2020 census, 6,766 Americans bore the surname Karim — 5,024th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,766
Rank: 5,024th
How common: 1 in 44,200
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 58.6%
White, not Hispanic 19.8%
Black, not Hispanic 12.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Karim

Jawed Karim (born 1979)American entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube
Arfa Karim (1995–2012)Pakistani computer scientist
Mustai Karim (1919–2005)Bashkir Soviet poet, writer and playwright
Quarraisha Karim (born 1960)South African researcher
Nelly Karim (born 1974)Egyptian ballerina and actress
Saba Anjum Karim (born 1985)Indian field hockey player
Mahdi Karim (born 1983)Iraqi footballer

People named Karim with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Karim

Also a first name

Karim has been given to 6,944 American babies as a first name since 1957, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

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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.