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 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
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| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 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 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 4,850 of them was named Karin, which outranked 95.3% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 286,923 of them was named Karin, which outranked 24.3% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,842Zebulah7
- #4,842Zeus7
- #4,842Zoltan7
- #5,355Karin6
- #5,355Aasim6
- #5,355Abdallah6
- #5,355Abdula6
- #6,056Aakash5
- #6,056Aarn5
- #6,056Aaryn5
Tied with 700 names at #5,355; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.