Kaarina
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kaarina is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Kaarina är en finsk form av → Karin och → Katarina.
- FIFinland1 in 63◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- SESweden1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈93K ●
- Sources
- 88 ●
- 1 in 63 ◐
across 6 countries
4.1K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Meaning & origin●
Kaarina är en finsk form av → Karin och → Katarina.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #14 | 88,967△ | 937 rec. | 1 in 63 | 135K | Kaarina | 54 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,812△ | 700 rec. | 1 in 2.7K | 3.8K | Kaarina | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | 273 | 259 rec. | — | 1 | Kaarina | 37 |
| US United States | — | 186 | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 1.8M | 186 | Kaarina | 88 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 159 | 124 rec. | — | — | Kaarina | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | 85 | 73 rec. | — | 1 | Kaarina | 26 |
| EE Estonia | — | 63 | 33 rec. | — | 19 | Kaarina | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 55 | 51 rec. | — | 14 | Kaarina | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 41 | 26 rec. | — | — | Kaarina | 15 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 33 | 40 rec. | — | — | Kaarina | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 17 | — | 1 in 2.3M | 17 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 13 | 13 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | Kaarina | 6 |
Roughly 89K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 63). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish496K99%
- English2.3K1%
- Spanish4031%
- German2001%
- Chinese1631%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 496,498 | 99% |
| English | 2,256 | 1% |
| Spanish | 403 | 1% |
| German | 200 | 1% |
| Chinese | 163 | 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●
Kaarina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., finnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 583 |
| 2000 | 582 |
| 2001 | 580 |
| 2002 | 576 |
| 2003 | 573 |
| 2004 | 569 |
| 2005 | 561 |
| 2006 | 554 |
| 2007 | 542 |
| 2008 | 536 |
| 2009 | 532 |
| 2010 | 517 |
| 2011 | 512 |
| 2012 | 505 |
| 2013 | 490 |
| 2014 | 479 |
| 2015 | 466 |
| 2016 | 457 |
| 2017 | 441 |
| 2018 | 431 |
| 2019 | 414 |
| 2020 | 399 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kaarina Multialab. 1600SEshopkeeper from 16th century
- Kerttu-Kaarina Suosalmib. 1921FIFinnish writer
- Kirsti Paakkanenb. 1929FInot in their usual nameFinnish business executive
- Liisi Tandefeltb. 1936FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress
- Laila Hirvisaarib. 1938FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer
- Riitta Jouppilab. 1940FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Tarja Halonenb. 1943FInot in their usual namePresident of Finland from 2000 to 2012 (born 1943)
- Tuija Braxb. 1965FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Reetta Hurskeb. 1995FInot in their usual nameFinnish athletics competitor
- Lotta Kemppinenb. 1998FInot in their usual nameFinnish sprinter
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 135K | #9 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 89K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.8K | #720 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 583 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 582 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 580 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 576 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 573 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 569 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 561 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 554 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 542 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 53 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kaarina?
- We estimate roughly 93 thousand people bear Kaarina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kaarina have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 89 thousand people bear Kaarina in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kaarina.
- Where is Kaarina most common?
- Kaarina is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 63 people carrying it.
- How common is Kaarina compared with other names?
- In Finland, Kaarina is the 14th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Kaarina a male or female name?
- Kaarina 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 Kaarina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kaarina är en finsk form av → Karin och → Katarina.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaarina” — the 14th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.