Carina

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Carina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name. In English, recorded as A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 220(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 63as Kaarina
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 363as Карина

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Carina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈220,000 named Карина, est.

#268 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
477 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 220 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KarinaLatin(measured from records)
КаринаCyrillic(measured from records)
קרינהHebrew(measured from records)
ԿարինաArmenian(measured from records)
კარინაGeorgian(measured from records)
ΚαριναGreek(measured from records)
카리나Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Karina in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil and 1 more and Карина in RU Russia, FI Finland, BY Belarus.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

How Carina is read(measured from records)

Carina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish61%

    Femenino de Carinos; en italiano, ‘graciosa, amable’, diminutivo de caro ‘querido’.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Portuguese11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Carina in Portuguese.

  • English9.6%

    A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German7.8%

    weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carina 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.

Where Carina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#95≈220,000 est.≈1 in 651#61Карина184
BR Brazil#183119,600as Karina1 in 1.8K120KKarina216
FI Finland#46288,967as Kaarina1 in 63135KКарина13
AR Argentina#90≈84,000 est.≈1 in 54138Karina155
US United States#87378,579as Karina1 in 4.2K78KKarina477
SE Sweden#91746,3851 in 22046KCarina51
BY Belarus#91≈26,000 est.≈1 in 363—Карина30
DK Denmark—11,682as Karina1 in 50212K—2
LV Latvia#5753,961as Karīna1 in 4754KKarina59

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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carina is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Sweden, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Carìna, Cariña, Čarina, Cârîñã

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Sweden

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Cariña, Cárina, Càrina, Cařina

  • Polish given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Russia, Poland

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Tsarina, Čarina, Čârîńâ, Царина

  • Lao given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Sweden, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Cariña

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Carina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Carina är ett latinskt namn, femininform till Carinus, som i sin tur är bildat till carus ’kär’. Det kan också vara en form av → Katarina. Det var bland de allra mest populära namnen under 1960-talet. En känd namnbärare är författaren Carina Rydberg (f. 1962). I den rikssvenska almanackan 7 maj och i den finlandssvenska 4 november.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Du latin carina, « quille »; aussi forme affective de Cara.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Amata / Proveniente dalla Caria

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Carina Lidbom, b. 1957Carina Lau, b. 1965Carina Wiese, b. 1970Carina Zampini, b. 1975Carina Berg, b. 1977Ai, b. 1981Carina Dahl, b. 1985Carina Kühne, b. 1985Carina Vogt, b. 1992Carina Witthöft, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 95 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Carina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—64K#655
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202251K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—51K#556
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—46K#86
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202030K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202018K#1,689
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4.5K#152
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.7K#452
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—1.9K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present)1990389#18
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020385—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—195#556

Reference works 6

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 Carina mean, and where does it come from?
A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Carina?
In the etymology graph, Cheryl, Kathy and Tina are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kara and Karaugh.
In which country does Carina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 218 thousand people named Карина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Carina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carina is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 220 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
Is Carina a male or female name?
Carina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How common is the name Carina?
In Sweden, the national register counted 46,385 people named Carina, about 1 in 220 residents.
How common is Carina compared with other names?
In Russia, Carina is the 95th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Carina” — the 95th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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