Meaning not yet researched.
Karina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 363 in 2025. Its best rank was #108 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #108 in 1996; #750 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#750 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #108.
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Karina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 363 girls in 2025. Peak: #108 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 2,985 (1995).
In 2025, 363 US girls were named Karina, making it the 750th most common girls’ name of the year, up 23 places from #773 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 365 girls named Karina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #108, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,985, in 1995. For comparison, it was #460 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karina in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 11 babies. In all, 61,717 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 22,724 babies named Karina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,668 US girls were named Karina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 633. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,428 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karina ranked highest in California in 2025, at #461 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cara (53,367 babies since 1880), Karin (28,731 babies since 1880), Carina (16,529 babies since 1880) and Karena (3,508 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karyna, Karinna and Kariana are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, North Germanic, Polish and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karyna (858), Karinna (605), Kariana (559), Karianna (487), Karenna (337), Carena (329), Karrina (223), Cariana (193), Carinna (168), Carrina (162), Karuna (144), Karynna (51), and more.
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 Karina in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 73 | #461 | #318 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #572 | #638 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #614 | — |
| Illinois | 15 | #644 | #394 |
| Washington | 10 | #649 | #348 |
| Texas | 47 | #655 | #359 |
| Oregon | 5 | #678 | #354 |
| Virginia | 11 | #682 | #1,008 |
| New York | 23 | #717 | #466 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #740 | #491 |
| Florida | 21 | #781 | #337 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #818 | #284 |
| Ohio | 11 | #843 | #639 |
| Colorado | 6 | #849 | #462 |
| Indiana | 7 | #866 | #734 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #870 | #664 |
| Michigan | 8 | #907 | #608 |
| Maryland | 5 | #911 | #600 |
| Georgia | 10 | #950 | #477 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,091 | #318 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,143 | #418 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 363 | #750 | — | — |
| 2024 | 365 | #773 | — | — |
| 2023 | 370 | #762 | — | — |
| 2022 | 421 | #701 | — | — |
| 2021 | 432 | #677 | — | — |
| 2020 | 477 | #610 | — | — |
| 2019 | 532 | #572 | — | — |
| 2018 | 511 | #596 | — | — |
| 2017 | 564 | #548 | — | — |
| 2016 | 633 | #493 | — | — |
| 2015 | 691 | #460 | — | — |
| 2014 | 740 | #432 | — | — |
| 2013 | 802 | #388 | — | — |
| 2012 | 858 | #366 | — | — |
| 2011 | 933 | #341 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,112 | #293 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,122 | #294 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,444 | #237 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,589 | #217 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,530 | #226 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,630 | #212 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,734 | #197 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,976 | #169 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,959 | #168 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,963 | #166 | 5 | #11,480 |
| 2000 | 2,133 | #159 | 5 | #11,304 |
| 1999 | 2,378 | #135 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,235 | #144 | 11 | #5,654 |
| 1997 | 2,374 | #132 | 8 | #6,944 |
| 1996 | 2,868 | #108 | 7 | #7,557 |
| 1995 | 2,985 | #109 | 16 | #3,964 |
| 1994 | 2,262 | #140 | 15 | #4,195 |
| 1993 | 2,202 | #143 | 17 | #3,745 |
| 1992 | 1,949 | #159 | 18 | #3,534 |
| 1991 | 1,795 | #165 | 10 | #5,294 |
| 1990 | 1,564 | #189 | 10 | #5,193 |
| 1989 | 1,539 | #182 | 21 | #2,950 |
| 1988 | 1,288 | #204 | 13 | #3,793 |
| 1987 | 849 | #289 | 15 | #3,274 |
| 1986 | 722 | #334 | 16 | #3,065 |
| 1985 | 671 | #351 | 13 | #3,514 |
| 1984 | 658 | #349 | — | — |
| 1983 | 647 | #350 | 12 | #3,528 |
| 1982 | 667 | #351 | 10 | #4,091 |
| 1981 | 656 | #357 | 8 | #4,744 |
| 1980 | 674 | #351 | 7 | #5,230 |
| 1979 | 506 | #417 | 9 | #4,232 |
| 1978 | 478 | #424 | — | — |
| 1977 | 406 | #475 | 7 | #4,866 |
| 1976 | 328 | #534 | — | — |
| 1975 | 276 | #589 | — | — |
| 1974 | 206 | #710 | — | — |
| 1973 | 180 | #757 | — | — |
| 1972 | 174 | #786 | — | — |
| 1971 | 154 | #872 | — | — |
| 1970 | 152 | #878 | — | — |
| 1969 | 121 | #977 | — | — |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1967 | 66 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1965 | 73 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1964 | 65 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,145 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,794 | — | — |
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).