Karý
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Karý is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,161 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: see Carey . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
- UYUruguay1 in 81K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 105K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 154K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
3,161 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kary in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Proto-Brythonic*karɨd“to love”(inferred from the name graph)via Carey
- Proto-Brythonic rootpréachán“crow”(inferred from the name graph)via Carey
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
see Carey . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karý counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,161 | 1 in 105K | 2.1K | Kary | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 235 | 1 in 901K | 235 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 42 | 1 in 81K | 42 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 33 | 1 in 154K | 33 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
3,161 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Karý mean, and where does it come from?
- see Carey . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Karý a male or female name?
- Karý is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Karý?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Karý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kary. After it come Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Karý most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karý is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 81 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karý?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,161 people named Karý in 2020, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kar%C3%BDThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Karý” — ranked 5441st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.