Karyna
Karyna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,039 among girls’ names; 858 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karyna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karyna mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Karyna is “a female given name, equivalent to English Karina”
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. )
/kaˈrɘ.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karyna?
#14,039 among girls’ names, 2025
Karyna rose from #15,429 in 2015 to #14,039 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
42 babies in 1997, the peak
Karyna peaked in 1997, when 42 girls were given it, #2,898 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,039 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,271 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,878 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,627 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,598 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,408 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,116 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,377 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,304 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,429 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #8,269 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,447 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,623 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,129 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,056 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,683 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,814 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,018 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,736 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,124 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,544 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,687 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,826 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,823 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,931 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,277 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,293 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,898 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,385 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,120 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,480 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,314 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,760 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,715 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,945 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,936 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,156 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,747 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,073 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,678 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,046 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,030 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,150 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,156 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,622 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,492 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,470 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,648 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,370 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karyna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karyna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karyna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karyna, and how old are they?
An estimated 844 Americans named Karyna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,055 people named Karyna (1,055 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 815 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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.
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 Karyna born?
The states with the most babies named Karyna are California, Texas and Florida, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 173 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 82 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Karyna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karyna is most over-represented in California: since 1974 it was given 1.5 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 Karyna 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 86,487 babies since 1880, Karyna is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 548 babies (1.1%), the seventh 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 Karyna
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 Karyna and names like it
- Compare Karyna and KarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaryna peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karyna since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Karyna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Karyna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karyna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.