Kareem is an Arabic name meaning ‘generous’ or ‘noble’. An alternate spelling is Karim.
Kareem is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Kareem isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Kareem ranks 657. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Kareem. In the entire USA, approximately 14,862 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kareem. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Kareem is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Kareem - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 346 in 1980. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Kareem really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kareem was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
404 babies were named Kareem in 2022 - that's 1 in 399,569 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Kareem ranked 628 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Kareem, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 32 states are home to men and boys named Kareem. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Kareem living in one state or another. If your name is Kareem and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New York, which has the most people named Kareem relative to the population, you still have to ask 3,621 men and boys their names before you hear Kareem as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Kareem is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kareem and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kareem, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kareem sounds like this:
