Karim is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Karim 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, Karim ranks 936. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Karim. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Karim.
Karim is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Karim cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #715 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Karim, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Karim seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Karim was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds that a man or boy named Karim lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Karim in 24 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado or Connecticut. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Karim live in Arizona – here, one in 14,468 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 40,983 will turn around if you call his first name Karim.
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 five letters, the name Karim is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Karim 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 Karim, 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. Karim sounds like this:
