Kerem
A Turkish name carrying the sense of "nobility, generosity". It stays rare in Poland: barely 126 men hold it, and boys given it now are almost none.
Kerem Pronunciation
Kerem is pronounced KE-rem (/ˈkɛrɛm/).
What Kerem means
Where Kerem comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kerem comes into Turkish from Arabic, where karam means generosity. The adjective kerim, noble and open-handed, belongs among the ninety-nine names of God in Islam, Al-Karim, the Generous. The short meaning stays close to that root: nobility, generosity.
In Turkish culture the name owns its most famous bearer in a folk legend. Kerem ile Aslı tells of a young man named Kerem who loves Aslı, a girl his family will not let him marry. He follows her across the country and dies before the wedding. Turkish singers still perform it.
On a Polish class register today Kerem sits among children of Turkish and Kurdish families. The name takes no diminutive and no Polish variant. It stays Kerem, and it holds the sense of karam: generosity.
How many people are named Kerem
1 in 169414 men in Poland is named Kerem. 126 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2977 among male names.
Kerem's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Kerem as a middle name
Kerem is a first name for 126 men in Poland and a middle name for another 32, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1477th, between Iqbal (32) and Kwiryn (32).
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#1475 Ildefons32
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#1476 Iqbal32
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#1477 Kerem32
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#1478 Kwiryn32
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#1479 Lam32