Karma Surname

30,360th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 17,601 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Estonia

Karma Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Karma Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India4,9921:153,6599,664
Indonesia3,5261:37,5074,354
Nigeria1,8291:96,8526,632
Egypt1,6781:54,7895,270
Morocco1,4311:24,0923,775
Togo6301:11,5042,968
Lebanon3691:15,2772,065
Bangladesh3601:442,65811,259
Iran3211:239,19818,329
Algeria2641:146,33219,345
Liberia2551:17,2881,774
United States1931:1,878,026122,158
Cambodia1831:84,6292,253
Cameroon1491:139,39015,562
Turkey1381:563,92330,928
United Arab Emirates1261:72,7166,783
Estonia1151:11,4941,676
Nepal751:379,7463,901
Iraq631:555,8998,855
Niger601:319,8679,444
Syria601:321,6844,579
Jordan521:170,0478,882
Canada511:722,46357,796
Qatar471:50,1704,949
Pakistan451:3,969,86428,516
Bhutan451:13,690406
Finland421:130,87412,452
Kuwait391:97,45410,676
Palestine391:116,6377,450
Sudan361:1,041,9503,038
Malaysia291:1,017,04245,504
Greece271:410,36354,524
Albania251:116,56210,484
England241:2,321,58686,519
Spain231:2,032,69753,462
Australia181:1,499,76175,721
New Zealand161:283,02024,643
Switzerland141:586,63740,624
Germany141:5,750,390205,224
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Papua New Guinea131:627,20974,307
Benin131:795,04642,452
Sweden121:820,56361,223
France101:6,642,272293,169
Yemen91:2,936,14415,216
Saudi Arabia91:3,428,42432,607
Thailand91:7,848,705447,191
Tunisia81:76,32812,820
Ukraine81:5,690,337241,823
South Africa61:9,029,617189,736
Netherlands61:2,814,529101,176
Guyana61:127,0377,965
China51:273,464,31313,838
Philippines51:20,247,645262,352
Bahrain41:337,1526,054
Suriname41:138,1547,029
Burkina Faso41:4,588,02521,573
Ghana41:6,755,17315,406
Israel41:2,139,40895,907
DR Congo41:18,469,892182,906
Italy41:15,289,172132,955
Uganda31:13,013,093160,157
Norway31:1,714,09579,528
Argentina31:14,247,805235,975
Chile21:8,808,23765,417
Mexico21:62,063,10283,384
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622
Rwanda11:11,364,9785,947
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Oman11:3,687,97114,390
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Croatia11:4,228,60499,289
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Djibouti11:914,9321,612
Latvia11:2,050,04660,295
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128

Karma (107,780) may also be a first name.

Karma Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Karma Come From? nationality or country of origin

Karma (Arabic: كارما, Bengali: কর্ম, Hindi: कर्मा, Marathi: कम, Oriya: କାମର୍ା, Tibetan: ཀརྨ་) is borne by more people in India than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Karma? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 30,360th most numerous family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 414,042 people. Karma is predominantly found in Asia, where 57 percent of Karma live; 33 percent live in South Asia and 28 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Karma is also the 9,517th most prevalent forename globally It is held by 107,780 people.

It is most common in India, where it is borne by 4,992 people, or 1 in 153,659. In India it is most prevalent in: Uttar Pradesh, where 21 percent live, Jharkhand, where 19 percent live and Bihar, where 17 percent live. Other than India this surname occurs in 87 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 20 percent live and Nigeria, where 10 percent live.

Karma Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Karma has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Karma surname grew 2,400 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Karma Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding 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 last name are 8.79% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 55.56% being registered with 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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kharma913,231/
Karmah911,305/
Karmaj91190/
Kaarma91172/
Karmai9185/
Kaerma9133/
Karmay9132/
Karmma9123/
Karmaş9120/
Karmaa9113/
Karzma9110/
Karmga916/
Karmau914/
Karmaš914/
Karhma912/
Karmea912/
Kairma911/
Karmaç911/
Karmać911/
Karmaś911/
Kearma911/
Karmass83214/
Karmasz83203/
Karmaya83180/
Karmatz8344/
Karmaja8342/
Kharmah8330/
Kharmai8329/
Karmast8323/
Kairema8314/
Karmaih8310/
Kairmau839/
Kharmaj835/
Karmaus834/
Karmaia833/
Karmhai833/
Khairma833/
Karmaut832/
Karmeah832/
Kaarmaa832/
Kharmay831/
Kearmay831/
Kharmau831/
Karmaha831/
Karmaah831/
Karmauh831/
Karhmat831/
Karmadd831/
Karmasd831/
Karmauy831/
Karmauß831/
Karmazė831/
Kkarmma831/
Kkharma831/
Karrmat831/
Karmi8017,882/
Korma805,665/
Carma804,601/
Karmo803,089/
Karmy801,641/
Kerma801,134/
Karme80347/
Qarma8062/
Karmó8010/
Kharmach77588/
Kharmats77103/
Kharmash7756/
Kharmahe7718/
Khairmad779/
Karmasch776/
Karmauch773/
Karmatch771/
Karmouha771/
Kharmaia771/
Kourma736,768/
Kormah732,016/
Kermah73877/
Karmoh73715/
Qarmad73447/
Karmiş73352/
Khorma73349/
Koorma73334/
Carmad73297/
Kharmi73258/
Karmie73229/
Karmee73227/
Qarmas73179/
Karmmi73163/
Karmhe73144/
Kärmas7399/
Karmoi7390/
Karmoo7386/
Karmoy7367/
Karmou7363/
Karmeh7354/
Keerma7350/
Carmah7348/
Karmei7338/
Carmas7333/
Karmiy7331/
Kairmo7330/
Kharmo7329/
Qarmaz7327/
Karrmo7325/
Carmat7323/
Kaarmo7318/
Karmih7317/
Karmey7315/
Kermai7315/
Karmez7311/
Carmai739/
Kormay739/
Kermay737/
Carmea735/
Kaarme735/
Kairme735/
Karmyi735/
Carmoa734/
Kormai734/
Kherma734/
Carmaz733/
Karmoj733/
Qarmat733/
Carmau732/
Carmay732/
Kermea732/
Karmui732/
Karmge731/
Karmii731/
Kuirma731/
Carmap731/
Carmma731/
Karmeu731/
Kaurmo731/
Kermaj731/
Karzmi731/
Karmoz731/
Karmér731/
Kharmy731/
Koirma731/
Kormaś731/
Carrma731/
Karhme731/
Karmme731/
Kharme731/
Karmış730/
Karrmi730/
Karmoud67379/
Kharmiz67376/
Kharmih67343/
Karmouz67284/
Qarmash67218/
Carmaux67186/
Khourma67179/
Kormash6765/
Kormath6763/
Kerrmma6746/
Qarmait6740/
Carmach6736/
Chearma6733/
Karrmoo6720/
Karmouh6719/
Carmaya6718/
Kaarmäe6712/
Karmieh6710/
Carmash6710/
Kairemo679/
Kearmey675/
Koormma674/
Karmhed674/
Kormasz674/
Kourmaj674/
Kearmes673/
Carmass673/
Khairmi673/
Karmiss672/
Keermma672/
Karmech672/
Carmauh672/
Kharmod671/
Kharmot671/
Kharmui671/
Karmost671/
Karmoth671/
Koormap671/
Kormadh671/
Quarmah671/
Karmmeh671/
Kormahe671/
Karmoch671/
Karmopp671/
Keermaa671/
Keirema671/
Karrmou671/
Karmehe671/
Karmysz671/
Kourmad671/
Kourmas671/
Kourmay671/
Kourmaz671/
Qarmaah671/
Qarmais671/
Cairema671/
Carmaut671/
Kormait671/
Karmooz671/
Karmeed671/
Karmoot671/
Karmosh671/
Kharmit671/
Keermai671/
Carmays670/
Karrmui670/

Karma Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Karma in the Marathi language
कमkama94.01
करमाkarama5.26
कामkama0.1
कारमोkaramo0.03
कमर्kamar0.03
कमॉkamo0.03
Karma in the Tibetan language
ཀརྨ་karma83.54
ཀརྨ།karma14.92
ཀརྨkarma0.84
ཀརྨ་།karma0.22
ཀ་རྨ་kama0.08
ཀར་མ་karma0.05
དཀར་མ་karma0.04
ཀ་རྨkama0.04
རྐར་མ་karma0.03
དཀར་མkarma0.03
ཀརམ་karam0.02
ཀརྨ་་karma0.02
དཀརྨ་kama0.02
གརྨ་gama0.02
ཀ་རྨ།kama0.02
དཀར་མ།karma0.02
ཀརྨྦ་karmba0.01
ཀརྨ་ཀུན་karmakün0.01
ཀརརྨ་karma0.01
ཀརྨཽ་kamau0.01
རྐམ་kam0.01
ཀརྨ།་karma0.01
རྐ་མ་kama0.01
༡ཀརྨ་karma0.01
དཀའ་རྨ་kama0.01
སྐར་མ་་karma0.01
སྐར་མ་karma0.01
ཀརྨ་བསོད་karmasö0.01
Karma in the Bengali language
কর্মkarma67.5
কর্মাkarma22.5
কর্মবিশ্বkarmabisba2.5
কর্মবাহাদুরkarmabahadura2.5
কর্মপদkarmapada2.5
কর্মজয়karmajaya2.5
Karma in the Hindi language
कर्माkarma52.92
करमाkarama42.74
कर्मkarma3.71
कारमाkarama0.14
कार्माkarma0.07
करमkarama0.04
्कर्माkarma0.01
र्कमाrkama0.01
Karma in the Oriya language
କାମର୍ାkamara41.91
କମର୍ାkamara30.4
କମର୍kamar19.65
କରମାkarama2.82
କାରମାkarama1.74
କମkama1.52
କାମର୍kamar0.54
କାର୍ାkara0.11
କମକ୍kamak0.11
କାମkama0.11
କାରମkarama0.11
କରମkarama0.11
Karma in the Arabic language
كارماkarma-

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