Carina
Carina was given to 134 girls in 2025, #1,572 among girls’ names; 16,529 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,100 Americans named Carina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carina is “a female given name from Latin occasionally used in English.” Its etymology gives the sense “beloved” (carus).
Name of a fourth century martyr, feminine of Latin carinus, derivative of carus “beloved”; also a latinization of Karina and Karin (= Catherine) in northern Europe.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carina?
#1,572 among girls’ names, 2025
Carina fell from #1,065 in 2015 to #1,572 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.08 per 1,000.
694 babies in 1995, the peak
Carina peaked in 1995, when 694 babies were given it (689 girls, #383 among girls’ names). The 134 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,572 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 147 | #1,484 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,430 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 166 | #1,381 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 169 | #1,328 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 164 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 239 | #1,061 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 236 | #1,075 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 236 | #1,076 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 245 | #1,064 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 248 | #1,065 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 254 | #1,027 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 232 | #1,068 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,098 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 230 | #1,071 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 271 | #948 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 314 | #876 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 308 | #901 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 334 | #850 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 308 | #864 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 363 | #741 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 363 | #731 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 401 | #663 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 386 | #654 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 415 | #607 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 460 | #567 | 0.25 |
| 1999 | 459 | #550 | 0.26 |
| 1998 | 448 | #553 | 0.25 |
| 1997 | 449 | #528 | 0.26 |
| 1996 | 607 | #418 | 0.35 |
| 1995 | 689 | #383 | 0.39 |
| 1994 | 563 | #452 | 0.32 |
| 1993 | 557 | #449 | 0.31 |
| 1992 | 520 | #475 | 0.28 |
| 1991 | 488 | #490 | 0.26 |
| 1990 | 436 | #543 | 0.23 |
| 1989 | 400 | #560 | 0.22 |
| 1988 | 329 | #607 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 246 | #733 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 242 | #735 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 256 | #691 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 245 | #684 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 227 | #727 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 240 | #722 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 214 | #762 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 218 | #759 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 196 | #805 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 183 | #819 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 185 | #811 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 148 | #892 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 101 | #1,147 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 96 | #1,169 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 81 | #1,276 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 76 | #1,327 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 72 | #1,447 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,370 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,385 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 66 | #1,375 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,620 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,458 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,549 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,355 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,189 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,077 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,076 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,996 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,120 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,349 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,995 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carina has been given almost only to girls: 35 boys in 77 years of records.
Girls and boys named Carina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carina, and how old are they?
16,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 16,529 Americans ever recorded as Carina. The median Carina alive today is 29 years old; half are between 19 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 18,338 people named Carina (18,312 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,347 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 163 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Carina born?
The states with the most babies named Carina are California, Florida and Texas, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | #1,092 | 2.2× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,008 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,069 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,034 | 0.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,684 | 1.2× |
| Washington | 6 | #946 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,445 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,208 | 1.0× |
Where Carina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carina is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 2.2 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 Carina 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 85,605 babies since 1880, Carina is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 134 of their 533 babies (25%), again the second most given.
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 Carina
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 Carina and names like it
- Compare Carina and KarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCarina peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carina since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Carina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Carina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Carina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.