Carin

Where Carin comes from

Carin hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1888
    Carin Göring born
    Swedish wife of Hermann Göring
  2. 1939
    First appearance
    #4,250 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1965
    Carin Jennings-Gabarra born
    American soccer player
  4. 1970
    Peak, #799
    175 babies named Carin — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,482.
  6. 2020
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Carin Göring · Swedish wife of Hermann Göring, 1888–1931
  • Carin Jennings-Gabarra · American soccer player, born 1965
  • Carin Nilsson · swimmer, 1904–1999
  • Carin Jämtin · Swedish politician, born 1964
  • Carin Cone · American swimmer, 1940–2025

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.