Carin
Carin was last recorded in 2025, when 6 babies were given it; 4,601 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,140 Americans named Carin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 44 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carin mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Carin is “a female given name, a less common anglicism of Carine”
/ka.ʁɛ̃/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,687, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
175 babies in 1970, the peak
Carin peaked in 1970, when 175 girls were given it, #799 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #14,687 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,958 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,159 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,269 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,323 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,639 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,049 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,934 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,739 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,265 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 14 | #7,907 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,072 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,905 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,671 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,673 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,099 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,610 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,845 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,754 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,542 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,393 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,829 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,780 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,385 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,907 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,443 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,864 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,921 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,913 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,862 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,477 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 82 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 103 | #1,257 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,368 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,483 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 111 | #1,185 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 112 | #1,144 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 156 | #906 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 117 | #1,048 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 133 | #948 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 159 | #831 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 127 | #947 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 141 | #894 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 163 | #842 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 175 | #799 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 157 | #820 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 149 | #834 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 126 | #911 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 101 | #1,032 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 114 | #958 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 91 | #1,154 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 73 | #1,291 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 100 | #1,081 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,216 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 113 | #1,008 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 91 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 53 | #1,470 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 85 | #1,143 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 85 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,424 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 49 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 50 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 40 | #1,525 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 52 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,499 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 50 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,545 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,867 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,787 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,532 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,334 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,601 Americans recorded as Carin, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carin, and how old are they?
4,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 4,601 Americans ever recorded as Carin. The median Carin alive today is 53 years old; half are between 44 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 4,666 people named Carin (4,588 women and girls, 78 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,194 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 31 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 968 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,970 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 859 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 211 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 104 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Carin born?
The states with the most babies named Carin are California, New York and Illinois, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 605 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 516 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 165 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 161 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 146 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 136 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 120 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 98 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 66 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 52 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Carin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carin is most over-represented in New York: since 1939 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,074,356 babies since 1880, Carin is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 220 babies (2.7%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carin and names like it
- Compare Carin and KarenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCarin peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carin since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Carin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Carin.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carin alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.