Karine

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Karine 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: a female given name derived from Swedish Karin ( =Catherine).

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, 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●

a female given name derived from Swedish Karin ( =Catherine)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Karine 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●

  • Portuguese1M49%
  • French883K43%
  • English110K5%
  • Spanish11K1%
  • Armenian6.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese1,016,82649%
French882,92843%
English110,2075%
Spanish11,2371%
Armenian6,2631%

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◐

Karine is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name919K records spelled Karine19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Kariné, Ka-Rine, Kar-Ine, Karîne, Ķarine

  • English given name133K records spelled Karine81 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Denmark, Venezuela

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Karina, Karīna, Karinae, Kaerina, Karína

  • Armenian given name6.8K records spelled Karine5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Armenia, Russia, Canada

    Also written Կարինե, Kariné, Karinē, Karinê

  • Russian given name5.5K records spelled Karine34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Карине, Каринэ, Карин, Каріне, Карін

  • a separate given name3.9K records spelled Karine5 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Karinė, Kariné, Kárine, Karinē

59 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●

Karine is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, presumption

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

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

020406019201940196019802000202053 · 1966

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Karine in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1917–2025
Yearrecords
19175
19256
19355
193710
19397
194010
19415
19428
19439
19465
19475
19486
19496
19515
19527
19546
195610
19575
19586
19595
196011
19618
19627
196312
196412
196514
196653
196742
196820
196929
197016
197122
197218
197322
197415
197513
197622
197726
197817
197921
198028
198119
198223
198324
198417
198521
198620
198725
198812
198920
199029
199111
199223
199330
199425
199523
199616
199717
199819
199916
200020
200115
20029
200320
200424
200518
200611
200716
200811
200914
201011
20118
201210
20137
20147
20155
20175
20188
20197
20208
20215
20228
202310
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 84 years between 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960197019801990Karine Silla, b. 1965Karine Tuil, b. 1972Karen Lancaume, b. 1973Karine Jean-Pierre, b. 1974Karine Ruby, b. 1978Karine Teles, b. 1978Karine Vanasse, b. 1983Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, b. 1984Karine Sergerie, b. 1985

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 69 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Karine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2023121K#2,886
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202274K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—74K#408
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—70K#617
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.8K#4,723
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.4K#798
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025910—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020859—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—546#4,301
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—468#2,227
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—338#783
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026338#783

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 · 695 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Karine?
We estimate roughly 560 thousand people bear Karine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Karine have the most bearers?
Karine is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled karina.
Where is Karine most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karine is densest in Finland — about 1 in 63 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Karine compared with other names?
In Argentina, Karine is the 104th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Karine a male or female name?
Karine 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 Karine mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name derived from Swedish Karin ( =Catherine)
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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, “Karine” — the 104th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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