Karine
Karine was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,035 among girls’ names; 1,212 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Karine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 27 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Karine is “a female given name from French.”
Borrowed from French Karine.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karine?
#14,035 among girls’ names, 2025
Karine rose from #17,778 in 2015 to #14,035 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
53 babies in 1966, the peak
Karine peaked in 1966, when 53 girls were given it, #1,538 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,035 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,945 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,702 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,427 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,594 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,093 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,943 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,112 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,778 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,789 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,879 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,821 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,735 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,108 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,655 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,417 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,900 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,236 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,668 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,291 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,916 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,639 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,123 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,573 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,325 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,464 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,739 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,907 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,413 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,171 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,626 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,441 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,645 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,661 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,571 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,447 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,564 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,102 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,912 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,403 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,374 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,583 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,064 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,095 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,707 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,151 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,035 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,222 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,709 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,115 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,062 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,454 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,098 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,780 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,420 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,907 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,796 | 25.4 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,538 | 31.3 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,470 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,974 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,896 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,542 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,070 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,033 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,704 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,736 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,548 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,031 | 5.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,431 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,697 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,795 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,963 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,937 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,694 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,312 | 3.2 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,360 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,577 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,723 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,852 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,611 | 6.4 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,840 | 9.4 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,545 | 4.8 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,687 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,939 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karine, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,212 Americans ever recorded as Karine. The median Karine alive today is 41 years old; half are between 27 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 3,848 people named Karine (3,831 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,098 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 92 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 349 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 329 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 236 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 76 |
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 Karine born?
The states with the most babies named Karine are California, New York and Illinois, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 188 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 95 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Karine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karine is most over-represented in California: since 1917 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 Karine 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 99,580 babies since 1880, Karine is the fifth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 524 babies (1.1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Karine
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 Karine and names like it
- Compare Karine and KarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKarine peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karine since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Karine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Karine.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Karine alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.