Karīna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sievietes vārds
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Karīna is a female 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.
- LVLatvia1 in 475(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 490
- DKDenmark1 in 502
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 Karīna 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)
- #268 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- 1 in 475 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Карина, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Karina in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, BR Brazil and 2 more, 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)Sievietes vārds
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karīna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #95 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 631 | register #61 | Карина | 184 |
| MX Mexico | #102 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 676 | 1.6K | Karina | 251 |
| BR Brazil | #183 | 119,600 | 1 in 1.8K | 120K | Karina | 216 |
| FI Finland | — | 88,967as Kaarina | 1 in 63 | 135K | Карина | 13 |
| AR Argentina | #90 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 516 | 38 | Karina | 155 |
| SE Sweden | #917 | 46,385as Carina | 1 in 220 | 46K | Carina | 51 |
| CL Chile | #130 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 487 | 1 | Karina | 136 |
| BY Belarus | #91 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 378 | — | Карина | 30 |
| LV Latvia | #575 | 3,961 | 1 in 475 | 4K | Karina | 59 |
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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karīna Kornab. 1975LVLatvian civil servant
- Karīna Jansenab. 2006Latvian athletics competitor (born 2006)
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 4K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 4K | #135 |
Reference works 1
- 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 are other forms of the name Karīna?
- In the etymology graph, Kathy, Tina and Cathy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Karīna a male or female name?
- Karīna 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 does the name Karīna mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
- In which country does Karīna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 228 thousand people named Карина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Karīna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karīna is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 475 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karīna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 119,600 people named Karīna in 2022, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Karīna compared with other names?
- In Russia, Karīna is the 95th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karīna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kar%C4%ABnaThe 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, “Karīna” — the 95th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.