Karin
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #7,967 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1967 · 949 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 28,532since 1907
Karin over time
Rank among girls' names. Karin has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,677 | 43 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,529 | 46 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #3,090 | 54 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #3,317 | 46 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #3,127 | 49 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #2,840 | 54 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,174 | 73 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,893 | 83 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,883 | 81 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #1,718 | 90 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,736 | 86 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,684 | 87 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #1,368 | 121 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,228 | 141 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #1,434 | 112 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,182 | 148 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,110 | 157 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #960 | 181 | — | |
| 1988 | #940 | 179 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #873 | 195 | — | |
| 1986 | #797 | 211 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #829 | 196 | — | |
| 1984 | #643 | 272 | — | |
| 1983 | #710 | 240 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #606 | 296 | — | |
| 1981 | #590 | 312 | — | |
| 1980 | #552 | 337 | — | |
| 1979 | #557 | 331 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #470 | 420 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #427 | 474 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #433 | 462 | — | |
| 1975 | #403 | 503 | — | |
| 1974 | #373 | 573 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #337 | 654 | — | |
| 1972 | #340 | 664 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #307 | 876 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #278 | 1,051 | — | |
| 1969 | #280 | 1,009 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #278 | 971 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #275 | 949 | — | |
| 1966 | #296 | 855 | — | |
| 1965 | #290 | 918 | — | |
| 1964 | #310 | 886 | — | |
| 1963 | #309 | 898 | — | |
| 1962 | #326 | 826 | — | |
| 1961 | #351 | 734 | — | |
| 1960 | #356 | 738 | — | |
| 1959 | #355 | 721 | — | |
| 1958 | #356 | 669 | — | |
| 1957 | #345 | 690 | — | |
| 1956 | #324 | 725 | — | |
| 1955 | #349 | 606 | — | |
| 1954 | #363 | 571 | — | |
| 1953 | #386 | 482 | — | |
| 1952 | #377 | 477 | — | |
| 1951 | #377 | 468 | — | |
| 1950 | #423 | 360 | — | |
| 1949 | #421 | 347 | — | |
| 1948 | #367 | 461 | — | |
| 1947 | #411 | 384 | — | |
| 1946 | #475 | 275 | — | |
| 1945 | #554 | 175 | — | |
| 1944 | #502 | 205 | — | |
| 1943 | #479 | 236 | — | |
| 1942 | #342 | 415 | — | |
| 1941 | #509 | 185 | — | |
| 1940 | #614 | 129 | — | |
| 1939 | #651 | 109 | — | |
| 1938 | #682 | 101 | — | |
| 1937 | #711 | 92 | — | |
| 1936 | #921 | 55 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,084 | 41 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,124 | 40 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,050 | 44 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,293 | 32 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,635 | 22 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,748 | 21 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,191 | 15 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,194 | 16 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,658 | 11 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,255 | 13 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,125 | 11 | — | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 | — | |
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Karin! It came in at #1,821, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1908–1911, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Karin
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 210 spots in 1937 (#921 → #711)
- Biggest drop: 186 spots in 1985 (#643 → #829)
- Debuted 1907
- Peaked 1967 at #275 (949 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1936–1989
- Highest: 1 in 1,663 girls born in 1970 were named Karin (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 124,630 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #275 in 1967, was only 1 in 1,740 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.8% of all girls named Karin (8,784) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | #1,821 (1907) | #1,821 |
| 1910s | 77 | #2,125 (1914) | #2,766 |
| 1920s | 104 | #2,191 (1929) | #3,169 |
| 1930s | 557 | #651 (1939) | #1,090 |
| 1940s | 2,812 | #342 (1942) | #467 |
| 1950s | 5,769 | #324 (1956) | #366 |
| 1960s | 8,784 | #275 (1967) | #307 |
| 1970s | 6,008 | #278 (1970) | #393 |
| 1980s | 2,419 | #552 (1980) | #750 |
| 1990s | 1,106 | #1,110 (1990) | #1,524 |
| 2000s | 536 | #2,174 (2000) | #3,047 |
| 2010s | 289 | #3,889 (2010) | #4,874 |
| 2020s | 65 | #7,281 (2022) | #8,046 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Karin in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
More about 1956
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2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 2,769 of them was named Karin, which outranked 95.3% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.