Karine
The girl's name Karine has been in the national records since 1917, with 1,212 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 1,100 Karines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Karine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,212
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1966
- Best rank
- 1,532nd
- Rank in 2025
- 13,208th
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Karines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,212 babies given the name since 1917, about 1,100 are alive — 91 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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 French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Karines
- Karine Jean-Pierre (born 1974)French-American political advisor and White House Press Secretary from 2022-2025
- Karine Vanasse (born 1983)Canadian actress
- Karine Ruby (1978–2009)French snowboarder
- Karine Elharrar (born 1977)Israeli politician
- Karine Sergerie (born 1985)Taekwondo practitioner
- Karine Kazinian (1955–2012)Armenian diplomat
- Silje Karine Muotka (born 1975)Norwegian Saami politician
- Kariné PoghosyanArmenian pianist
People named Karine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Karine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Karine is most concentrated in California (6.2×), New York (4.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1966
The most popular girls’ names the year Karine peaked:
Karine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Karine +1 spelling | 121,120 | 6th |
| Norway girls | Karine | 851 | 189th |
| Scotland girls | Karine | 23 | 419th |
| England and Wales girls | Karine | 12 | 5,545th |
| Belgium girls | Karine | 10 | 687th |
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.
Karine: rank by region
In 1995, Karine was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Karine | 286 | 8 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Karine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Karine | 14 | 28 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Karine lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 546 women called Karine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Karine | 25 | 0.060 | 1,140 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Karine | 50 | 0.049 | 1,353 |
| Valencia/València | Karine | 64 | 0.045 | 1,168 |
| Barcelona | Karine | 134 | 0.044 | 1,303 |
| Rioja, La | Karine | 5 | 0.030 | 1,693 |
| Málaga | Karine | 27 | 0.029 | 1,642 |
Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 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
Karine 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.