Karina
Karina was given to 363 girls in 2025, #750 among girls’ names; 61,717 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 60,500 Americans named Karina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Karina is “a female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage, a form of Karin (Catherine) long used in Scandinavia, or from Carina.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karina?
#750 among girls’ names, 2025
Karina fell from #460 in 2015 to #750 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.39 to 0.23 per 1,000.
3,001 babies in 1995, the peak
Karina peaked in 1995, when 3,001 babies were given it (2,985 girls, #109 among girls’ names). The 363 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 363 | #750 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 365 | #773 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 370 | #762 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 421 | #701 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 432 | #677 | 0.26 |
| 2020 | 477 | #610 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 532 | #572 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 511 | #596 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 564 | #548 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 633 | #493 | 0.36 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 691 | #460 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 740 | #432 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 802 | #388 | 0.46 |
| 2012 | 858 | #366 | 0.49 |
| 2011 | 933 | #341 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 1,112 | #293 | 0.63 |
| 2009 | 1,122 | #294 | 0.61 |
| 2008 | 1,444 | #237 | 0.76 |
| 2007 | 1,589 | #217 | 0.83 |
| 2006 | 1,530 | #226 | 0.80 |
| 2005 | 1,630 | #212 | 0.88 |
| 2004 | 1,734 | #197 | 0.94 |
| 2003 | 1,976 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 2002 | 1,959 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 1,963 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 2,133 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 2,378 | #135 | 1.3 |
| 1998 | 2,235 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1997 | 2,374 | #132 | 1.4 |
| 1996 | 2,868 | #108 | 1.6 |
| 1995 | 2,985 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 1994 | 2,262 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 1993 | 2,202 | #143 | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 1,949 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 1,795 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 1,564 | #189 | 0.82 |
| 1989 | 1,539 | #182 | 0.83 |
| 1988 | 1,288 | #204 | 0.72 |
| 1987 | 849 | #289 | 0.49 |
| 1986 | 722 | #334 | 0.42 |
| 1985 | 671 | #351 | 0.39 |
| 1984 | 658 | #349 | 0.39 |
| 1983 | 647 | #350 | 0.39 |
| 1982 | 667 | #351 | 0.39 |
| 1981 | 656 | #357 | 0.39 |
| 1980 | 674 | #351 | 0.41 |
| 1979 | 506 | #417 | 0.32 |
| 1978 | 478 | #424 | 0.31 |
| 1977 | 406 | #475 | 0.26 |
| 1976 | 328 | #534 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 276 | #589 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 206 | #710 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 180 | #757 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 174 | #786 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 154 | #872 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 152 | #878 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 121 | #977 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,062 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 66 | #1,352 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,358 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 73 | #1,257 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 65 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,133 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,144 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,334 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,914 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,793 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karina has been given almost only to girls: 253 boys in 70 years of records.
Girls and boys named Karina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karina, and how old are they?
60,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 61,717 Americans ever recorded as Karina. The median Karina alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 78,579 people named Karina (78,443 women and girls, 136 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 58,513 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 268 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,750 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 23,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,860 |
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 Karina born?
The states with the most babies named Karina are California, Texas and New York, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 73 | #461 | 2.5× |
| Texas | 47 | #655 | 1.7× |
| New York | 23 | #717 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 21 | #781 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 15 | #644 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #740 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #870 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 11 | #682 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 11 | #843 | 0.2× |
| Washington | 10 | #649 | 1.0× |
Where Karina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karina is most over-represented in California: since 1956 it was given 2.5 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 Karina 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 86,545 babies since 1880, Karina is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 363 of their 539 babies (67%), again the 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 Karina
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 Karina and names like it
- Compare Karina and CarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarina peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karina since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Karina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.