Karina

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage, a form of Karin (Catherine) long used in Scandinavia, or from Carina

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

/kaɾina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Karina 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.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 541(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.8K
  • USUnited States1 in 4.2K

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 Karina 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 475 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

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)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Карина in RU Russia, FI Finland, BY Belarus and Carina in SE Sweden.

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 female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage, a form of Karin (Catherine) long used in Scandinavia, or from Carina.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karina 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 Karina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#95≈220,000 est.≈1 in 651#61Карина184
BR Brazil#183119,6001 in 1.8K120KKarina216
FI Finland#46288,967as Kaarina1 in 63135KКарина13
AR Argentina#90≈84,000 est.≈1 in 54138Karina155
US United States#87378,5791 in 4.2K78KKarina477
SE Sweden#91746,385as Carina1 in 22046KCarina51
BY Belarus#91≈26,000 est.≈1 in 363—Карина30
DK Denmark—11,6821 in 50212K—2
LV Latvia#5753,9611 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)

Karina is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name58 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Karīna, Karinae, Karína, Kaerina, Kärïnä

  • French given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, United States, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Karinà, Karīna, Kârïnã, Káríñá, Kärïnä

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Karina, Karīna, Karina', Karína, Ķarina

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Karìna, Karīna

  • Estonian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Estonia, Peru, Finland

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Karīna, Kärinä, Kãrînä, Kärina, Kärïnä

  • Latvian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Karīna, Kariną

73 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)

Karina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, Carina: 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)

  • In Swedish, a diminutive of the female given name Katarina and elaboration of Karin

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

  • In Danish, a female given name derived from Katharina ( =Catherine)

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

  • In French, a female given name from English or Ancient Greek

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

  • In Norwegian, a female given name derived from Katarina

    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)

1940196019802000Anna Karina, b. 1940Karina Lombard, b. 1969Karina Milei, b. 1973Karina Bryant, b. 1979Karina Smulders, b. 1980Karina Testa, b. 1981Karina Canellakis, b. 1981Karina Maruyama, b. 1983Karina Razumovskaya, b. 1983Karina Gould, b. 1987

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Karina,Hi Karina, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 107 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Karina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022120K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—119K#271
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—118K#414
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202078K#671
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—12K#60
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.8K#625
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.7K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—2.7K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—2.7K#207
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.3K#685
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020901—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—589—

Reference works 4

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 Karina mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage, a form of Karin (Catherine) long used in Scandinavia, or from Carina. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Karina a male or female name?
Karina 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.
In which country does Karina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 218 thousand people named Карина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Karina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karina is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 475 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Karina?
A machine transcription gives /kaɾina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Karina?
In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Kathy are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Karina?
In Brazil, the national register counted 119,600 people named Karina in 2022, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Karina compared with other names?
In Russia, Karina 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, “Karina” — the 95th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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