Carine
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Carine is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Sweden it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French feminine form related to Cara/Catherine; often linked to Latin carus, 'dear'.
- FIFinland1 in 63◐
- SESweden1 in 70
- DEGermany1 in 359
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈560K ●
- #210 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 434 ●
- 1 in 63 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
4.2M records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Karina in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 8 more, Karin in US United States, DE Germany, SE Sweden and 8 more, Карина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and קרין in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
French feminine form related to Cara/Catherine; often linked to Latin carus, 'dear'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #104 | 1,677,010 | 1M rec. | — | 2K | Karina | 148 |
| RU Russia | #95 | 1,096,709 | 432K rec. | — | #61 | Карина | 168 |
| MX Mexico | #105 | 556,764 | 389K rec. | — | 1.6K | Karina | 237 |
| DE Germany | #59 | 338,187 | 316K rec. | — | 2 | Karin | 237 |
| UA Ukraine | #106 | 335,468 | 336K rec. | — | listed | Карина | 73 |
| PE Peru | #90 | 311,043 | 244K rec. | — | — | Karina | 103 |
| VE Venezuela | #102 | 235,777 | 159K rec. | — | — | Karina | 99 |
| SE Sweden | #11 | 146,129△ | 44K rec. | 1 in 70 | 146K | Karin | 149 |
| CL Chile | #138 | 140,116 | 13K rec. | — | 2 | Karina | 132 |
| BR Brazil | #129 | 119,600 | 136K rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 120K | Karina | 214 |
| FI Finland | #442 | 88,967△ | 644 rec. | 1 in 63 | 135K | Karin | 28 |
| US United States | #522 | 78,443 | 548K rec. | 1 in 4.2K | 78K | Karin | 434 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese466K52%
- French350K39%
- English48K5%
- Dutch4.7K1%
- Spanish3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 465,689 | 52% |
| French | 349,592 | 39% |
| English | 48,267 | 5% |
| Dutch | 4,733 | 1% |
| Spanish | 3,048 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Carine is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A keel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Dérivé de Catherine; origine grecque, signifie « pure ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin carus, « chère », ou diminutif moderne.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, La bien-aimée.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Albanian, indefinite dative/ablative singular of carinë
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1915 | 8 |
| 1917 | 7 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1919 | 7 |
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1922 | 6 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1927 | 6 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1966 | 7 |
| 1967 | 13 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 9 |
| 1970 | 10 |
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 9 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 12 |
| 1980 | 16 |
| 1981 | 19 |
| 1982 | 17 |
| 1983 | 13 |
| 1984 | 16 |
| 1985 | 17 |
| 1986 | 11 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 14 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2021 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 64 years between 1915–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Carine Adlerb. 1948BRBrazilian film director
- Carine Roitfeldb. 1954FRFrench editor
- Carine Crutzenb. 1961NLDutch actress (born 1961)
- Carine Verbauwenb. 1961BEBelgian swimmer
- Carine Gindtb. 1972LULuxembourgian female association football player
- Carine Tardieub. 1973FRFrench film maker
- Carine Bécardb. 1975FRFrench journalist and radio personality
- Carine Bijlsmab. 1983NLDutch filmmaker
- Carine Mbuh Ndoum Yohb. 1993CMCameroonian association football player
- Carine Ngarlemdanab. 1994TDChadian judoka (* 1994)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 66 sources across 40 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 474 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Carine?
- We estimate roughly 560 thousand people bear Carine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Carine have the most bearers?
- Carine is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled karina.
- Where is Carine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carine is densest in Finland — about 1 in 63 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Carine compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Carine is the 104th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Carine a male or female name?
- Carine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Carine mean?
- Recorded meaning: French feminine form related to Cara/Catherine; often linked to Latin carus, 'dear'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carine” — the 104th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.