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The KARIM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,853 7966 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) -1 116455 0 0
Change since 1880 +3854 +108489 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 138 10622 0.001 8
United Kingdom 2,523 2425 0.005 55
Top States for KARIM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 659 2906 0.003 35
California 527 5348 0.002 16
Texas 333 5944 0.002 16
Illinois 259 5017 0.002 21
Florida 239 8007 0.001 15
Top States for KARIM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 659 2906 0.003 35
Virginia 213 3905 0.003 30
Maryland 150 3943 0.003 28
Washington DC 14 4054 0.002 24
New Jersey 182 5319 0.002 22

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KARIM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KARIM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KARIM in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KARIM by picking someone at random in New York than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KARIM

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Bangladesh

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of KARIM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 865 22.45
Black/African American 655 17
Mixed Race 520 13.5
White (Hispanic) 109 2.83
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.57
Asian/Pacific 1,682 43.65

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KARIM surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of KARIM in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KARIM.

Similar names to KARIM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KARIM.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KARIM

The following words are slight variants of KARIM that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.