Karine — girls' name

What the Data Says About Karine

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,206 babies named Karine between 1917 and 2023, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1966, when 53 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karine performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 209 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Karine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 188 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Karine in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,206 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.