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Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
Generous, Noble

Word/name
  
Arabic

Alternative spelling
  
Kareem, Karem

Karim (alternatively spelled Kareem, or Kerim) (Arabic: کریم‎‎) is a common given and surname of Arabic origin that means generous or noble. Not to be confounded with Al-Karim (Arabic: الکریم‎‎), which is one of the 99 names of Allah, meaning The Most Generous.

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Karim is also a spelling of a similar though a lot less common name, (Arabic: كرم‎‎), this name has a short second vowel, it is commonly spelled as Karam also often spelled Karem or Kerem. Another derivative name of (Arabic: أکرم‎‎) is Akram (meaning more generous).

Given name

Karim
  • Karim SY, Social Entrepreneur - Ashoka Fellow 2012 (www.jokkolabs.net)
  • Karim Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actor
  • Karim Abdul-Jabbar (later known as Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar), American football player
  • Prince Karim Aga Khan current Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
  • Karim Ali, American TV/film writer and producer
  • Karim Ansarifard, Iranian football player
  • Karim Azizou, Moroccan footballer
  • Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer
  • Karim Bangoura, Guinean diplomat
  • Karim Benounes, Algerian footballer
  • Karim Benzema, French footballer
  • Karim Boudiaf, Algerian footballer
  • Karim Dahou, Moroccan footballer
  • Karim Djeballi, French footballer
  • Karim Haggui, Tunisian footballer
  • Karim Garcia, baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies
  • Karim Haddad, Lebanese composer of contemporary music
  • Karim Kawar, Jordanian diplomat
  • Karim Keïta, Malian politician
  • Karim Kerkar, Algerian footballer
  • Karim Khan Zand, Iranian king
  • Karim Laribi, Italian footballer
  • Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer
  • Karim Maroc, Algerian footballer
  • Karim Masimov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
  • Karim Pakradouni, Lebanese-Armenian Christian politician (Kataeb Party, Lebanese Forces) and former government minister
  • Karim Prince, American actor
  • Karim Saidi, Tunisian footballer
  • Karim Tulaganov, Uzbek boxer and Olympic medalist
  • Karim Van Overmeire, Belgian politician
  • Karim Ziani, Algerian footballer
  • Kareem
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American former basketball player
  • Kareem Amer, Egyptian blogger
  • Kareem Ennab, Jordanian swimmer
  • Kareem Campbell, American skateboarder
  • Kareem Dennis, British rapper performing as Lowkey
  • Kareem Kelly, Canadian footballer
  • Kareem McKenzie, American football player
  • Kareem Rush, American basketball player
  • Kerim

    Surname

    Karim
  • Aasif Karim, Kenyan cricketer
  • Afsir Karim, Indian Army general and military scholar
  • Bavand Karim, Iranian-American filmmaker
  • Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
  • Mahmoud Karim, Egyptian professional squash player
  • Manzoor Ul Karim
  • Mohammed Karim, Egyptian film director
  • Rashid Karim, Bangladeshi novelist
  • Saba Karim, Indian cricketer
  • Sajjad Karim, British Member of the European Parliament
  • Mona Karim, Lebanese actress
  • Kareem
  • Yaqub Kareem (Yakuba Karim), Nigerian boxer of the 2000s and 2010s
  • Fictional characters

  • Karim family in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
  • Kareem Said, a Muslim prisoner in the T.V. series Oz
  • Kareem, a character played by Rodney Sinclair in the British web series Corner Shop Show.
  • Karim, a fictional character in the video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
  • Karim, a minor character in the strategy computer game Anno 1404
  • Other uses

  • Karim (record label)
  • Karim, Iran
  • Karim, Khuzestan, Iran
  • Karimnagar, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Karimnagar district, a district in Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Karriem Riyaad, Architect @ MLB Architects, South Africa
  • References

    Karim Wikipedia