Carine

given name · Latin script

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

Carine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. In French, recorded as French feminine form related to Cara/Catherine; often linked to Latin carus, 'dear'.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 737(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 20K
  • SESweden1 in 70as Karin

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 Carine 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈240,000 named Karin, est.

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
457 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 737 (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KarinLatin(measured from records)
가린Hangul(measured from records)
კარინეGeorgian(measured from records)
ԿարինArmenian(measured from records)
КаринCyrillic(measured from records)
ΚαρινGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Karin in DE Germany, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands and 4 more and Karine in BR Brazil, FR France.

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)

French feminine form related to Cara/Catherine; often linked to Latin carus, 'dear'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

How Carine is read(measured from records)

Carine is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.

  • French72%

    French feminine form related to Cara/Catherine; often linked to Latin carus, 'dear'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Dérivé de Catherine; origine grecque, signifie « pure ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Du latin carus, « chère », ou diminutif moderne.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    La bien-aimée.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Portuguese15%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Carine in Portuguese.

  • English5.6%

    A keel.

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

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)

Carine 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 Carine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#58≈240,000 est.≈1 in 338—Karin251
SE Sweden#13146,129as Karin1 in 70146KKarin178
FR France—≈130,000 est.≈1 in 538121KKarine5
BR Brazil#30574,405as Karine1 in 2.8K74KKarine178
AT Austria#31≈35,000 est.≈1 in 2554.2KKarin172
BE Belgium#280≈16,000 est.≈1 in 737311Karin93
DK Denmark#9213,770as Karin1 in 42614KKarin139
NO Norway#8610,264as Karin1 in 53331KKarin97
NL Netherlands#408581 in 20K23KKarin129

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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)

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

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Spain

    Also written Carîne, Cariné, Çarine

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Càrine, Cariné, Cariñe, Cärïnë

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cariñe, Cariné

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Cariné

65 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)

Carine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Albanian, indefinite dative/ablative singular of carinë

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

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)

1940196019802000Carine Adler, b. 1948Carine Roitfeld, b. 1954Carine Crutzen, b. 1961Carine Verbauwen, b. 1961Carine Gindt, b. 1972Carine Tardieu, b. 1973Carine Bécard, b. 1975Carine Bijlsma, b. 1983Carine Mbuh Ndoum Yoh, b. 1993Carine Ngarlemdana, b. 1994

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 66 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Carine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)201746K#2,716
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—40K#903
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202232K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—32K#774
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—988#1,659
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—848#1,430
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—434#3,516
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020277—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025270—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—246#4,511
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—137#774
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020136—

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Carine mean, and where does it come from?
French feminine form related to Cara/Catherine; often linked to Latin carus, 'dear'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Carine a male or female name?
Carine 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.
What are other forms of the name Carine?
In the etymology graph, Karen, Kathleen and Catherine are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Carine have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 237 thousand people named Karin in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Carine?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 858 people named Carine, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
How common is Carine compared with other names?
In Germany, Carine is the 58th most common given name of 156,202 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, “Carine” — the 58th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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