Karin

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Karin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Sweden it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Somali: town on the Gulf of Aden; also a short form of Katherine.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 13 countries

#210 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
434 ●

4.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 63 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

KarinaLatin · Spanish●2.6M records
КаринаCyrillic · Russian●1.2M records
קאריןHebrew · Hebrew●17K records
ᲙარინეGeorgian · Georgian●5.6K records
ԿարինաArmenian · Armenian●356 records
가린Hangul · Korean●143 records
ΚαριναGreek · Greek●3 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Karina in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 8 more, Карина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more, קרין in FR France and קארין in IL Israel.

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●

Somali: town on the Gulf of Aden; also a short form of Katherine.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Karin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1041,677,0101M rec.—2KKarina148
RU Russia#951,096,709432K rec.—#61Карина168
MX Mexico#105556,764389K rec.—1.6KKarina237
DE Germany#59338,187316K rec.—2Karin237
UA Ukraine#106335,468336K rec.—listedКарина73
PE Peru#90311,043244K rec.——Karina103
VE Venezuela#102235,777159K rec.——Karina99
SE Sweden#11146,129△44K rec.1 in 70146KKarin149
CL Chile#138140,11613K rec.—2Karina132
BR Brazil#129119,600136K rec.1 in 1.8K120KKarina214
FI Finland#44288,967△644 rec.1 in 63135KKarin28
US United States#52278,443548K rec.1 in 4.2K78KKarin434

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German456K27%
  • English444K27%
  • Spanish157K9%
  • Portuguese100K6%
  • Danish62K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German455,83727%
English444,34227%
Spanish156,9989%
Portuguese99,5696%
Danish61,7164%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Karin is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name290K records spelled Karin26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, Chile, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Karín, Kárin, Kärïn, Kärin, Kariñ

  • Czech given name54K records spelled Karin38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Karyn, Карин, Karín, Kàríń, Carinus

  • a separate given name30K records spelled Karin6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Kärin, Ḳarin, Kárin, Kārin, Karín

  • French given name30K records spelled Karin6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Karïn, Kârîn, Karín

  • Indonesian given name6.2K records spelled Karin3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Peru, Netherlands

    Also written 'Karin, Karin'

  • a separate given name5.5K records spelled Karin5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Canada

    Also written Kårîn, Kãrïn, Karín, Kårîń

  • Hungarian given name4.7K records spelled Karin2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Kárin

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Karin 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.

  • doing; accomplishing; rejoicing; praising; jubiliant

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In English, A female given name from Danish [in turn from Ancient Greek Αἰκατερῑ́νη (Aikaterī́nē)], variant of Karen.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, a female given name, popular in Germany from the 1930s to the 1960s

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, weibl. Vom., schwedische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Saetta

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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●

05001K1.5K1920194019601980200020201.1K · 1970

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Karin in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1907–2025
Yearrecords
19076
19126
19135
191411
191513
191611
19176
191814
191911
19209
192110
192211
19235
19248
192510
192610
192710
192816
192915
193021
193122
193232
193344
193440
193541
193655
193792
1938101
1939109
1940129
1941185
1942415
1943236
1944205
1945175
1946275
1947384
1948461
1949347
1950360
1951468
1952477
1953482
1954571
1955606
1956725
1957690
1958669
1959721
1960738
1961734
1962826
1963898
1964886
1965918
1966855
1967949
1968971
19691,009
19701,051
1971876
1972664
1973654
1974573
1975503
1976462
1977474
1978420
1979331
1980337
1981312
1982296
1983240
1984272
1985196
1986211
1987195
1988179
1989181
1990157
1991148
1992112
1993141
1994121
199587
199686
199790
199881
199983
200073
200171
200259
200354
200449
200546
200654
200741
200846
200943
201039
201129
201231
201337
201426
201529
201626
201730
201825
201917
202013
202113
202215
202311
202413
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 115 years between 1907–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Karin Dor, b. 1938Petra Kelly, b. 1947Karin Büttner-Janz, b. 1952Karin Fossum, b. 1954Karin Konoval, b. 1961Karin Keller-Sutter, b. 1963Karin Kneissl, b. 1965Karin Viard, b. 1966Victoria Silvstedt, b. 1974Sabine Hossenfelder, b. 1976

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 93 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Karin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—146K#15
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202060K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202034K#1,150
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—31K#131
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—23K#135
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—14K#45
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202510K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—9.3K#451
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—7.7K#219
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20225.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—5.3K#3,235
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—5.2K#2,617

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 1,208 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Karin?
We estimate roughly 560 thousand people bear Karin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Karin have the most bearers?
Karin is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled karina.
Where is Karin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karin is densest in Finland — about 1 in 63 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Karin compared with other names?
In Argentina, Karin is the 104th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Karin a male or female name?
Karin 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 Karin mean?
Recorded meaning: Somali: town on the Gulf of Aden; also a short form of Katherine.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Karin” — the 104th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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