# Karina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/karina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 61,717 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 253 / 61,464 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,048, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 933 | 341 |
| 2012 | 858 | 366 |
| 2013 | 802 | 388 |
| 2014 | 740 | 432 |
| 2015 | 691 | 460 |
| 2016 | 633 | 493 |
| 2017 | 564 | 548 |
| 2018 | 511 | 596 |
| 2019 | 532 | 572 |
| 2020 | 477 | 610 |
| 2021 | 432 | 677 |
| 2022 | 421 | 701 |
| 2023 | 370 | 762 |
| 2024 | 365 | 773 |
| 2025 | 363 | 750 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 16 | 3,065 |
| 1987 | 15 | 3,274 |
| 1988 | 13 | 3,793 |
| 1989 | 21 | 2,950 |
| 1990 | 10 | 5,193 |
| 1991 | 10 | 5,294 |
| 1992 | 18 | 3,534 |
| 1993 | 17 | 3,745 |
| 1994 | 15 | 4,195 |
| 1995 | 16 | 3,964 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7,557 |
| 1997 | 8 | 6,944 |
| 1998 | 11 | 5,654 |
| 2000 | 5 | 11,304 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,480 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 91 | 468 |
| 2012 | 76 | 556 |
| 2013 | 78 | 536 |
| 2014 | 81 | 521 |
| 2015 | 90 | 478 |
| 2016 | 95 | 458 |
| 2017 | 90 | 486 |
| 2018 | 83 | 513 |
| 2019 | 90 | 469 |
| 2020 | 78 | 514 |
| 2021 | 59 | 654 |
| 2022 | 62 | 613 |
| 2023 | 56 | 647 |
| 2024 | 43 | 855 |
| 2025 | 40 | 872 |

## People named Karina

- Anna Karina, Danish-French actress (1940–2019)
- Karina Lombard, French-American actress
- Karina Bryant, British judoka
- Karina LeBlanc, Canadian soccer player
- Karina Pasian, American singer
- Karina Ambartsumova, chess player
- Karina Milei, Argentine politician
- Karina Gould, Canadian politician
- Karina Bell, Danish actress (1898–1979)
- Karina Masotta, field hockey player
- Karina Canellakis, American conductor and violinist
- Karina Smirnoff, dancer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.