Karte
surname · Latin script
Meaning: card, ticket, menu
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑɹt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 180K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 393K
- DEGermany≈1 in 431K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 180K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
card, ticket, menu
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karte 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 431K | — | Karte | 41 |
| IN India | 80 | 1 in 17M | 80 | Karte | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 44 | 1 in 393K | 44 | Karte | 5 |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 23M | listed | Karte | 27 |
| AT Austria | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 593K | — | Karte | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | Karte | 5 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Karte is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, card
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, map, chart
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Zemes virsmas vai tās daļas pamazināts, vispārināts, matemātiski noteikts grafisks attēlojums plaknē (parasti uz papīra vai digitāli)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Taisnstūrveida (parasti bieza) papīra lapa, arī saistīts lapu kopums speciālu ziņu, datu u. tml. ierakstīšanai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Dokuments, kas apliecina (personas) piederību (kādai organizācijai, biedrībai, apvienībai u. tml.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 80 | #33,029 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 44 | #33,227 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #33,866 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #38,332 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Karte mean, and where does it come from?
- card, ticket, menu Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- What are other forms of the name Karte?
- In the etymology graph, Card and Kaart are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Karte?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Karte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 186 people named Karte in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karte.
- Where is Karte most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karte is densest in Finland — about 1 in 180 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karte?
- In India, the national register counted 80 people named Karte, about 1 in 17 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karteThe 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, “Karte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.