Meaning not yet researched.
Carin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,478 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,478 in 2023; #10,902 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,902 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #4,478.
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Carin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,478 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 23 (2023).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Carin, making it the 10,902nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,375 places from #6,527 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 13 boys named Carin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,478, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 23. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Carin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #799, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 175. For comparison, it was #16,964 in 2015 and #1,500 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carin in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 5 babies. In all, 4,601 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,394 babies named Carin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 86 US boys were named Carin; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karen (990,774 babies since 1880), Catherine (669,611 babies since 1880), Katherine (652,750 babies since 1880) and Katie (241,784 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cariann, Carinne and Carrine are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cariann (281), Carinne (216), Carrine (156), Carrion (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #10,902 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,527 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,478 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,877 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,175 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,361 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,692 | — | — |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,964 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,165 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,273 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,329 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,644 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,055 | — | — |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,938 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,744 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,270 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,912 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,077 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,911 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,676 | — | — |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,678 | — | — |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,103 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,614 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,850 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,759 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,547 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1983 | 82 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1982 | 103 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1979 | 111 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1978 | 112 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1977 | 156 | #906 | — | — |
| 1976 | 117 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1975 | 133 | #948 | — | — |
| 1974 | 159 | #831 | — | — |
| 1973 | 127 | #947 | — | — |
| 1972 | 141 | #894 | — | — |
| 1971 | 163 | #842 | — | — |
| 1970 | 175 | #799 | — | — |
| 1969 | 157 | #820 | — | — |
| 1968 | 149 | #834 | — | — |
| 1967 | 126 | #911 | — | — |
| 1966 | 101 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1965 | 114 | #958 | — | — |
| 1964 | 91 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1963 | 73 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1962 | 100 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1960 | 113 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1959 | 91 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1958 | 53 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1957 | 85 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1956 | 85 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1954 | 49 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1953 | 50 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1952 | 40 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1951 | 52 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1949 | 50 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,842 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,336 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).