Karma Surname
Approximately 17,601 people bear this surname
Karma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 4,992 | 1:153,659 | 9,664 |
| Indonesia | 3,526 | 1:37,507 | 4,354 |
| Nigeria | 1,829 | 1:96,852 | 6,632 |
| Egypt | 1,678 | 1:54,789 | 5,270 |
| Morocco | 1,431 | 1:24,092 | 3,775 |
| Togo | 630 | 1:11,504 | 2,968 |
| Lebanon | 369 | 1:15,277 | 2,065 |
| Bangladesh | 360 | 1:442,658 | 11,259 |
| Iran | 321 | 1:239,198 | 18,329 |
| Algeria | 264 | 1:146,332 | 19,345 |
| Liberia | 255 | 1:17,288 | 1,774 |
| United States | 193 | 1:1,878,026 | 122,158 |
| Cambodia | 183 | 1:84,629 | 2,253 |
| Cameroon | 149 | 1:139,390 | 15,562 |
| Turkey | 138 | 1:563,923 | 30,928 |
| United Arab Emirates | 126 | 1:72,716 | 6,783 |
| Estonia | 115 | 1:11,494 | 1,676 |
| Nepal | 75 | 1:379,746 | 3,901 |
| Iraq | 63 | 1:555,899 | 8,855 |
| Niger | 60 | 1:319,867 | 9,444 |
| Syria | 60 | 1:321,684 | 4,579 |
| Jordan | 52 | 1:170,047 | 8,882 |
| Canada | 51 | 1:722,463 | 57,796 |
| Qatar | 47 | 1:50,170 | 4,949 |
| Pakistan | 45 | 1:3,969,864 | 28,516 |
| Bhutan | 45 | 1:13,690 | 406 |
| Finland | 42 | 1:130,874 | 12,452 |
| Kuwait | 39 | 1:97,454 | 10,676 |
| Palestine | 39 | 1:116,637 | 7,450 |
| Sudan | 36 | 1:1,041,950 | 3,038 |
| Malaysia | 29 | 1:1,017,042 | 45,504 |
| Greece | 27 | 1:410,363 | 54,524 |
| Albania | 25 | 1:116,562 | 10,484 |
| England | 24 | 1:2,321,586 | 86,519 |
| Spain | 23 | 1:2,032,697 | 53,462 |
| Australia | 18 | 1:1,499,761 | 75,721 |
| New Zealand | 16 | 1:283,020 | 24,643 |
| Switzerland | 14 | 1:586,637 | 40,624 |
| Germany | 14 | 1:5,750,390 | 205,224 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| Benin | 13 | 1:795,046 | 42,452 |
| Sweden | 12 | 1:820,563 | 61,223 |
| France | 10 | 1:6,642,272 | 293,169 |
| Yemen | 9 | 1:2,936,144 | 15,216 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Thailand | 9 | 1:7,848,705 | 447,191 |
| Tunisia | 8 | 1:76,328 | 12,820 |
| Ukraine | 8 | 1:5,690,337 | 241,823 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1:2,814,529 | 101,176 |
| Guyana | 6 | 1:127,037 | 7,965 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| Suriname | 4 | 1:138,154 | 7,029 |
| Burkina Faso | 4 | 1:4,588,025 | 21,573 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Israel | 4 | 1:2,139,408 | 95,907 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Karma (107,780) may also be a first name.
Karma Demographics
Karma Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Karma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Karma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Karma (Arabic: كارما, Bengali: কর্ম, Hindi: कर्मा, Marathi: कम, Oriya: କାମର୍ା, Tibetan: ཀརྨ་) occurs in India more than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Karma.
How Common Is The Last Name Karma? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 30,360th most frequently held family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 414,042 people. The last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 57 percent of Karma are found; 33 percent are found in South Asia and 28 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 9,517th most frequent forename world-wide It is held by 107,780 people.
The last name Karma is most frequently held in India, where it is borne by 4,992 people, or 1 in 153,659. In India Karma is primarily concentrated in: Uttar Pradesh, where 21 percent live, Jharkhand, where 19 percent live and Bihar, where 17 percent live. Not including India this last name exists in 87 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 20 percent live and Nigeria, where 10 percent live.
Karma Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Karma has changed over time. In England the share of the population with the last name increased 2,400 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Karma Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Karma last name is predominantly Sunni (95%) in Lebanon, Muslim (80%) in Nigeria and Orthodox (86%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Karma surname are 8.79% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 55.56% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Karma earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 11.39% more than the national average, earning $48,063 USD per year and in Canada they earn 14.8% less than the national average, earning $42,331 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Karma Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Karma in the Marathi language | ||
| कम | kama | 94.01 |
| करमा | karama | 5.26 |
| काम | kama | 0.1 |
| कारमो | karamo | 0.03 |
| कमर् | kamar | 0.03 |
| कमॉ | kamo | 0.03 |
| Karma in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀརྨ་ | karma | 83.54 |
| ཀརྨ། | karma | 14.92 |
| ཀརྨ | karma | 0.84 |
| ཀརྨ་། | karma | 0.22 |
| ཀ་རྨ་ | kama | 0.08 |
| ཀར་མ་ | karma | 0.05 |
| དཀར་མ་ | karma | 0.04 |
| ཀ་རྨ | kama | 0.04 |
| རྐར་མ་ | karma | 0.03 |
| དཀར་མ | karma | 0.03 |
| ཀརམ་ | karam | 0.02 |
| ཀརྨ་་ | karma | 0.02 |
| དཀརྨ་ | kama | 0.02 |
| གརྨ་ | gama | 0.02 |
| ཀ་རྨ། | kama | 0.02 |
| དཀར་མ། | karma | 0.02 |
| ཀརྨྦ་ | karmba | 0.01 |
| ཀརྨ་ཀུན་ | karmakün | 0.01 |
| ཀརརྨ་ | karma | 0.01 |
| ཀརྨཽ་ | kamau | 0.01 |
| རྐམ་ | kam | 0.01 |
| ཀརྨ།་ | karma | 0.01 |
| རྐ་མ་ | kama | 0.01 |
| ༡ཀརྨ་ | karma | 0.01 |
| དཀའ་རྨ་ | kama | 0.01 |
| སྐར་མ་་ | karma | 0.01 |
| སྐར་མ་ | karma | 0.01 |
| ཀརྨ་བསོད་ | karmasö | 0.01 |
| Karma in the Bengali language | ||
| কর্ম | karma | 67.5 |
| কর্মা | karma | 22.5 |
| কর্মবিশ্ব | karmabisba | 2.5 |
| কর্মবাহাদুর | karmabahadura | 2.5 |
| কর্মপদ | karmapada | 2.5 |
| কর্মজয় | karmajaya | 2.5 |
| Karma in the Hindi language | ||
| कर्मा | karma | 52.92 |
| करमा | karama | 42.74 |
| कर्म | karma | 3.71 |
| कारमा | karama | 0.14 |
| कार्मा | karma | 0.07 |
| करम | karama | 0.04 |
| ्कर्मा | karma | 0.01 |
| र्कमा | rkama | 0.01 |
| Karma in the Oriya language | ||
| କାମର୍ା | kamara | 41.91 |
| କମର୍ା | kamara | 30.4 |
| କମର୍ | kamar | 19.65 |
| କରମା | karama | 2.82 |
| କାରମା | karama | 1.74 |
| କମ | kama | 1.52 |
| କାମର୍ | kamar | 0.54 |
| କାର୍ା | kara | 0.11 |
| କମକ୍ | kamak | 0.11 |
| କାମ | kama | 0.11 |
| କାରମ | karama | 0.11 |
| କରମ | karama | 0.11 |
| Karma in the Arabic language | ||
| كارما | karma | - |
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