| Gender | Male (Female: Karima) |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Arabic |
| Meaning | Generous, Noble, Honorable |
Kareem (alternatively spelled Karim or Kerim) (Arabic: کریم) is a common given name and surname of Arabic origin that means "generous", "noble", "honorable". It is too one of the Names of God in Islam in the Quran.
Given name
- Karim
- Karim Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actor
- Karim Abdul-Jabbar (later known as Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar), American football player
- Prince Karim Aga Khan, 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
- Karim Haddad, Lebanese composer
- Karim Jovian, Egyptian-American social commentator and Youtuber
- 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 Noureldin, Swiss artist
- Karim Pakradouni, Lebanese-Armenian Christian politician and government minister
- Karim Prince, American actor
- Karim Saidi, Tunisian footballer
- Karim Tulaganov, Uzbek boxer
- Karim Van Overmeire, Belgian politician
- Karim Zeroual, British actor
- Karim Ziani, Algerian footballer
- Karim Rashid, Egyptian industrial designer
- Karim Khan, Indian Tattoo Artist (Kolkata based)
- Kareem
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born 1947), American basketball player
- Kareem Amer (born c. 1984), Egyptian blogger
- Kareem Burke (born 1974), American entrepreneur and record executive
- Kareem Campbell (born 1973), American skateboarder
- Kareem Dennis (born 1986), British rapper performing as Lowkey
- Kareem Ennab (born 1987), Jordanian swimmer
- Kareem Hunt (born 1995), American football player
- Kareem Jackson (born 1988), American football player
- Kareem Kelly (born 1981), American football player
- Kareem McKenzie (born 1979), American football player
- Kareem Moses (born 1990), Trinidadian footballer
- Kareem Orr (born 1997), American football player
- Kareem Rush (born 1980), American basketball player
- Kareem Serageldin, American banking executive convicted of fraud
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 squash player
- Manzoor Ul Karim, Chief National Commissioner of the Bangladesh Scouts and government official
- Mohammed Karim, Egyptian film director
- Mosharraf Karim, Bangladeshi actor
- Mona Karim, Lebanese actress
- Musharraf Karim Bangladeshi writer
- Rashid Karim, Bangladeshi novelist
- Saba Karim, Indian cricketer
- Sajjad Karim, British Member of the European Parliament
- Kareem
- Khalid Kareem (born 1998), American football player
- Yaqub Kareem, Nigerian boxer
Fictional characters
- Karim family in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Kareem Said, a Muslim prisoner in the T.V. series Oz
- Kareem, played by Rodney Sinclair in the British web series Corner Shop Show
- Karim, in the video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Karim
- All pages with titles containing Karim
- Karie (name)
- Abdul Karim (disambiguation), Arabic theophoric name
- Karimov, Russianized surname
- Kerimov, Russianized surname