Kareena
Kareena was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,304 among girls’ names; 1,499 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Kareena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kareena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kareena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kareena is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kareena?
#7,304 among girls’ names, 2025
Kareena fell from #3,366 in 2015 to #7,304 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 9.3 per million.
69 babies in 2002, the peak
Kareena peaked in 2002, when 69 girls were given it, #2,338 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,304 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,688 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,820 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,450 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,099 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,481 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,603 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,282 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,991 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,371 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,366 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,403 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,485 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,250 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,968 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,028 | 31.5 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,146 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,817 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,076 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,154 | 27.9 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,798 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,569 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,685 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,338 | 38.4 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,824 | 28.9 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,957 | 26.4 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,791 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,712 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,438 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,986 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,107 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,832 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,162 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,529 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,272 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,748 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,173 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,383 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,521 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,833 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,222 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,836 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,990 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,056 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,046 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,687 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,602 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,024 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,340 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,940 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,704 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,122 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,985 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,859 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,640 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kareena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kareena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kareena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kareena, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,499 Americans ever recorded as Kareena. The median Kareena alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,352 people named Kareena (1,352 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 301 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 791 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 316 |
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 Kareena born?
The states with the most babies named Kareena are California, New York and Florida, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 206 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 130 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kareena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kareena is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.3 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 Kareena 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 69,776 babies since 1880, Kareena is the third most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 408 babies (3.7%), again the third 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 Kareena
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 Kareena and names like it
- Compare Kareena and KarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKareena peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kareena since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Kareena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kareena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.