Karine

given name · Latin script

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

Karine 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. Recorded meaning: a female given name derived from Swedish Karin ( =Catherine).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 70as Karin
  • ATAustria≈1 in 255as 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 Karine 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 538 (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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, NO Norway and 2 more.

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 derived from Swedish Karin ( =Catherine)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karine 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 Karine 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#30574,4051 in 2.8K74KKarine178
AT Austria#31≈35,000 est.≈1 in 2554.2KKarin172
DK Denmark#9213,770as Karin1 in 42614KKarin139
NO Norway#8610,264as Karin1 in 53331KKarin97

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); 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). 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)

Karine is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, Spain

    Also written Kariné, Ka-Rine, Kar-Ine, Karîne, Kãrïñe

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kariné, Kàrine, Kärinė, Karíne, Karinė

  • Armenian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Armenia, United States, Russia, Canada

    Also written Կարինե, Kariné, Karinē, Karinê

  • Russian given name34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Карине, Каринэ, Карин, Каріне, Карін

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Karinė, Kariné, Karinē, Kárine

60 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)

Karine is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, presumption

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

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1960197019801990Karine Silla, b. 1965Karine Tuil, b. 1972Karen Lancaume, b. 1973Karine Jean-Pierre, b. 1974Karine Ruby, b. 1978Karine Teles, b. 1978Karine Vanasse, b. 1983Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, b. 1984Karine Sergerie, b. 1985

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 72 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Karine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2023121K#2,886
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202274K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—74K#408
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—70K#617
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.4K#798
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025910—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020859—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—320#408
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—206#5,139
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020110—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—88#1,764
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)20186—

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Karine mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name derived from Swedish Karin ( =Catherine) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Karine have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 237 thousand people named Karin in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
Is Karine a male or female name?
Karine 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 Karine?
In the etymology graph, Catherine, Kathy and Tina are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Karine?
In Brazil, the national register counted 74,405 people named Karine in 2022, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
How common is Karine compared with other names?
In Germany, Karine 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, “Karine” — the 58th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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