Names

Means “son of Karl”.

Means “son of Karl”.

From the given name Karl.

Derived from Finnish Karjala meaning “Karelia”. Karelia is an area on the border between Finland and Russia.

Derived from the given name Karim.

Derived from the given name Kariuki.

Derived from the given name Karim.

Nickname meaning “crow” in Turkish.

From Hungarian kard meaning “sword”. It could have been applied to soldiers, sword makers, or one with a pugnacious nature.

Created by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky for his novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879), about three brothers and their murdered father. Dostoyevsky may have based it on Tartar/Turkic кара (kara) meaning “black” and Russian мазать (mazat) meaning “stain” [1]. The connection to black is implied in the novel when one of the brothers is accidentally addressed as Mr. Черномазов (Chernomazov), as if based on Russian чёрный meaning “black” [2].