Surname statistics for Karim

There are approximately 10,913 people named Karim in the UK. That makes it the 963rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 173 are named Karim.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)10913963N/A173
United Kingdom (1881 census)N/Aless than 0.001N/A
Change since 1881
Other Countries
United States38537966N/A14
Australia13810622N/A8

Politics

People with the surname Karim are considerably less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Abdul Karim
Mohammed Karim
Mohammad Karim
Rezaul Karim
Muhammad Karim
Shahid Karim
Asif Karim
Mohamed Karim
Zahid Karim
Arif Karim
Muhammed Karim
Ali Karim
Fazlul Karim
Riaz Karim
Syed Karim
Mahomed Karim
Abid Karim
Imran Karim
Shahzad Karim
Mustafa Karim

Top female forenames

Saira Karim
Fatima Karim
Shazia Karim
Shelina Karim
Helen Karim
Rehana Karim
Susan Karim
Safina Karim
Christine Karim
Asma Karim
Nadia Karim
Saema Karim
Shamim Karim
Rubina Karim
Shireen Karim
Sukaina Karim
Sumera Karim
Tahira Karim
Tracy Karim
Yasmin Karim

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there 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!

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 UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.