Carina
About 16,529 American babies have been named Carina since 1914, most of them around 1995. In 2025 it ranked 1,570th. About 16,000 Carinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Carina boys named Carina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,529
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 382nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,570th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 16,494 / 35
How old the living Carinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,529 babies given the name since 1914, about 16,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 3,900 of them are children and 80 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Name of a fourth century martyr, feminine of Latin carinus, derivative of carus "beloved"; also a latinization of Karina and Karin (= Catherine) in northern Europe.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Carinas
- Carina Vogt (born 1992)German ski jumper
- Carina Lau (born 1965)Hong Kong actress
- Carina Witthöft (born 1995)German tennis player
- Carina Bär (born 1990)German rower
- Carina Wiese (born 1968)German actress
- Carina Benninga (born 1962)Dutch field hockey player
- Carina Ljungdahl (born 1960)Swedish freestyle swimmer
- Carina Wenninger (born 1991)Austrian association football player
People named Carina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Carina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Carina is most concentrated in California (3.6×), Arizona (1.9×), Washington (1.8×), Florida (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1995
The most popular girls’ names the year Carina peaked:
Carina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria girls | Carina | 8,737 | 13th |
| Norway girls | Carina | 2,587 | 60th |
| France girls | Carina | 965 | 678th |
| Denmark girls | Carina | 867 | 14th |
| England and Wales girls | Carina | 617 | 737th |
| Switzerland girls | Carina | 607 | 140th |
| Ireland girls | Carina | 231 | 274th |
| Scotland girls | Carina | 183 | 294th |
| Belgium girls | Carina | 10 | 1,399th |
| Poland girls | Carina | 4 birth registrations | 734th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Carina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Carina | 561 | 0.045% | 102nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Carina | 43 | 0.010% | 240th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Carina | 1 | 0.002% | 181st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Carina | 2 | 0.054% | 14th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Carina is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.09% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Carina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Carina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Carina | 1,361 | 3,028 |
| Finland girls | Carina | 941 | 1,898 |
| the Netherlands boys | Carina | — | 39 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Carina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,092 women called Carina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Carina | 68 | 0.305 | 377 |
| Girona | Carina | 124 | 0.299 | 386 |
| Ourense | Carina | 43 | 0.271 | 381 |
| Tarragona | Carina | 85 | 0.194 | 513 |
| Coruña, A | Carina | 90 | 0.152 | 535 |
| Barcelona | Carina | 449 | 0.148 | 544 |
Listed in 40 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 12 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Carina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.