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Karim

Karim: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“generous, noble”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
kuh-REEM · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

From Arabic Karīm. It is widely used across the Arabic-speaking world and also in Persian and Turkish usage.

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How popular is Karim?

202492.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Karim in 2024305

2024 rank#818 boys

Peak year2023

Total US babies since 18806,746

Karim is rising: use over the last five years is 2.0× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Karim

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Amircommander, prince · Arabic
  • Muhammadpraised · Arabic
  • Zaynbeauty, grace · Arabic
  • Omarflourishing, long-lived · Arabic
  • Alihigh, exalted · Arabic
  • Cairovictorious · Arabic
  • Ibrahimfather of multitudes · Arabic
  • Amiriprincely, of a commander · Arabic

Karim questions

What does the name Karim mean?

Karim means "generous, noble". It comes from Arabic. From Arabic Karīm. It is widely used across the Arabic-speaking world and also in Persian and Turkish usage.

Is Karim a boy or girl name?

Karim is mainly a boy's name in US records (99% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Karim?

305 US babies were named Karim in 2024. Its peak year was 2023.

How do you pronounce Karim?

Karim is usually pronounced kuh-REEM.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.