Carin
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of Camden Assets Recovery Interagency Network
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkæɹɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 877(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 19K
- NLNetherlands1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- 1 in 877 (inferred from the name graph)
11,640 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of Camden Assets Recovery Interagency Network.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Carin is read(measured from records)
Carin 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.
- English59%
Initialism of Camden Assets Recovery Interagency Network.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Cornish; love. Italian; the beloved one
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- Spanish9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Carin in Spanish.
- Swedish5.8%
a female given name, a less common spelling of Karin
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Carin 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #234 | 11,640 | 1 in 877 | 12K | Carin | 92 |
| US United States | — | 4,666 | 1 in 71K | 4.6K | Carin | 345 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Carin | 60 |
| BJ Benin | #650 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Carin | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Carin | 77 |
| NL Netherlands | #703 | 752 | 1 in 23K | 727 | Carin | 59 |
| FI Finland | — | 206 | 1 in 27K | 379 | Carin | 7 |
11,640 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Carin 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.
Cornish Love
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In French, a female given name, a less common anglicism of Carine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sai-pyk, tobacco
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)
- Carin Göringb. 1888SESwedish wife of Hermann Göring
- Carin Nilssonb. 1904SEswimmer (1904–1999)
- Carin Malmlöf-Forsslingb. 1916SESwedish organist, choir director, and composer
- Carin Mannheimerb. 1934SESwedish author, dramatist and director (1934–2014)
- Beatrice Askb. 1956SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician, cabinet minister and county governor
- Carin Gerhardsenb. 1962SESwedish author
- Carin C. Tietzeb. 1964USAmerican actor and voice actor
- Carin Jennings-Gabarrab. 1965USAmerican soccer player (born 1965)
- Carin ter Beekb. 1970NLDutch rower
- Julia Michaelsb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and songwriter (born 1993)
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)
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 59 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12K | #355 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 5.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.6K | #4,123 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 727 | #1,591 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 501 | #3,209 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 379 | #1,262 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 206 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 78 | #4,123 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 25 | #10,206 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Carin mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Camden Assets Recovery Interagency Network. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkæɹɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Carin a male or female name?
- Carin 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 Carin?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Kathleen and Catherine are forms of the same name in other languages; Karina and Carina are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Carin have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Carin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carin.
- Where is Carin most common?
- Carin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 877 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Carin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 11,640 people named Carin, about 1 in 877 residents.
- How common is Carin compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Carin is the 234th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Carin” — the 234th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.