Carine
Carine was last recorded in 2021, when 7 babies were given it; 617 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carine mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Carine is “a female given name from Old Norse [in turn from Ancient Greek], an alternative spelling of Karine”
A spelling variant of Karine, with initial ⟨C⟩ in place of ⟨K⟩, and a variant of Carina with the ending -ine in place of -ina. Ultimately from Old Norse Kaðrina (“female given name”), a later form of Katrina (“female given name”), from Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē, “female given name”). The original meaning is uncertain, although the name was associated early with καθαρός (katharós, “pure, chaste”). Compare Danish Carine, Swedish Carine and French Carine (“female given name”).
/kaˈriː.nə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,460, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1981, the peak
Carine peaked in 1981, when 19 girls were given it, #4,022 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | #12,460 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,695 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,129 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,749 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,355 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,736 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,840 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,115 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,039 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,567 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 14 | #7,908 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,176 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,905 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,867 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,035 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,627 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,767 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,546 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,085 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,177 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,708 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,993 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,512 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,650 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,373 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,867 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,709 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,967 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,217 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,484 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,506 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,188 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,371 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,022 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,543 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,463 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,006 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,455 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,651 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,575 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,322 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,630 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,640 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,837 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,094 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,096 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,334 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,681 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,327 | 4.1 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,878 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,912 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,574 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,090 | 3.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,443 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,335 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,375 | 5.0 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,182 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,457 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,527 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,088 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,887 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,921 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,770 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,177 | 8.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carine, and how old are they?
An estimated 534 Americans named Carine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 27 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,755 people named Carine (1,743 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 537 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 81,695 babies since 1880, Carine is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 503 babies recorded by SSA was a Carine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Carine
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 Carine and names like it
- Compare Carine and KarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCarine peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carine since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Carine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Carine.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Carine alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.