Meaning not yet researched.
Karin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,520 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,520 in 1968; #11,333 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,333 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #3,520.
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Karin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,520 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 15 (2022).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Karin, making it the 11,333rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,911 places from #9,422 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 8 boys named Karin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,520, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 15, in 2022. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Karin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #276, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,051, in 1970. For comparison, it was #4,788 in 2015 and #423 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karin in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 6 babies. In all, 28,731 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 8,796 babies named Karin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 59 US boys were named Karin; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 15. 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 Kathy (334,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kariann, Carine and Karinne 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, Estonian, Norwegian, Slovene and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kariann (789), Carine (617), Karinne (294), Carrin (222), Karrine (57), Carion (28), Karrion (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Karin 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 | #11,333 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,187 | 8 | #9,422 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,292 | 10 | #7,997 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,456 | 15 | #6,008 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,258 | 6 | #11,446 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,181 | 7 | #10,081 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,875 | 7 | #10,292 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,241 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,630 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,214 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,788 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,228 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,042 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,863 | 6 | #11,569 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,882 | 9 | #8,579 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,116 | 9 | #8,392 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,340 | 5 | #12,389 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,152 | 6 | #10,674 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,857 | 5 | #11,837 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,620 | 9 | #7,346 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 2000 | 73 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,907 | 6 | #9,306 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,894 | 6 | #9,066 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,693 | 6 | #8,339 |
| 1994 | 121 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,234 | 5 | #9,467 |
| 1992 | 112 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1991 | 148 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1990 | 157 | #1,115 | 5 | #8,810 |
| 1989 | 181 | #964 | — | — |
| 1988 | 179 | #942 | 7 | #6,126 |
| 1987 | 195 | #875 | — | — |
| 1986 | 211 | #799 | 5 | #7,275 |
| 1985 | 196 | #830 | — | — |
| 1984 | 272 | #643 | — | — |
| 1983 | 240 | #710 | 5 | #6,779 |
| 1982 | 296 | #608 | — | — |
| 1981 | 312 | #590 | — | — |
| 1980 | 337 | #552 | — | — |
| 1979 | 331 | #557 | 6 | #5,723 |
| 1978 | 420 | #470 | 5 | #6,292 |
| 1977 | 474 | #427 | 8 | #4,387 |
| 1976 | 462 | #434 | — | — |
| 1975 | 503 | #403 | — | — |
| 1974 | 573 | #373 | 5 | #5,612 |
| 1973 | 654 | #337 | — | — |
| 1972 | 664 | #340 | 5 | #5,365 |
| 1971 | 876 | #307 | 5 | #5,288 |
| 1970 | 1,051 | #278 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,009 | #280 | 5 | #4,712 |
| 1968 | 971 | #278 | 7 | #3,520 |
| 1967 | 949 | #276 | — | — |
| 1966 | 855 | #296 | — | — |
| 1965 | 918 | #290 | — | — |
| 1964 | 886 | #310 | — | — |
| 1963 | 898 | #310 | — | — |
| 1962 | 826 | #326 | — | — |
| 1961 | 734 | #352 | — | — |
| 1960 | 738 | #358 | — | — |
| 1959 | 721 | #355 | — | — |
| 1958 | 669 | #356 | — | — |
| 1957 | 690 | #345 | — | — |
| 1956 | 725 | #324 | — | — |
| 1955 | 606 | #349 | — | — |
| 1954 | 571 | #363 | — | — |
| 1953 | 482 | #387 | — | — |
| 1952 | 477 | #378 | — | — |
| 1951 | 468 | #378 | — | — |
| 1950 | 360 | #423 | — | — |
| 1949 | 347 | #421 | — | — |
| 1948 | 461 | #367 | — | — |
| 1947 | 384 | #411 | — | — |
| 1946 | 275 | #475 | — | — |
| 1945 | 175 | #555 | — | — |
| 1944 | 205 | #503 | — | — |
| 1943 | 236 | #480 | — | — |
| 1942 | 415 | #343 | — | — |
| 1941 | 185 | #509 | — | — |
| 1940 | 129 | #616 | — | — |
| 1939 | 109 | #651 | — | — |
| 1938 | 101 | #684 | — | — |
| 1937 | 92 | #712 | — | — |
| 1936 | 55 | #924 | — | — |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1934 | 40 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,173 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,838 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,329 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,739 | — | — |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,431 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,940 | — | — |
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).