Fun Facts About the Name Karasi
- 16 babies named Karasi: U.S. records list 16 babies given the name Karasi from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Karasi Mean?
Karasi is chiefly a Turkish name and is best understood as a spelling variant of Karesi, the name borne by the founder of a Turkic principality in northwestern Anatolia. Its etymology is not settled. Turkish kara means "black," and karası is the possessive form, literally "its black" or "the black one" - a reading sometimes connected to the name, but not confirmed as its source. Ottoman sources record Karesi as a personal name, and the origin of that name has also been sought in a local place name rather than in an ordinary Turkish word. Similar-looking surnames used in India and the Lithuanian name Karas are not documented as sharing this origin.
Karasi Name History & Origins
Karasi/Karesi entered the record through the Karesi Beylik, a Turkic principality founded in the late thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia and centered on Balıkesir and Bergama, with territory reaching toward the Dardanelles. The ruling house took its name from its founder, Karesi Bey. The beylik was the first Anatolian Turkish principality absorbed by the Ottomans, in the mid-fourteenth century under Orhan, and its ships and seamen contributed to early Ottoman naval strength. Because a ruling dynasty carried the name, Karesi stayed familiar in Ottoman usage. In modern Turkish it names a district of Balıkesir province and is occasionally given to boys, usually spelled Karesi and less often Karasi. The spelling Karasi also occurs as a family name in India, belonging to a separate naming tradition.
How Popular is the Name Karasi?
Karasi has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2017. Its best rank was #14,986 in 2017.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #16,074 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #16,379 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #14,986 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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