Karina
#749 for girls in 2025, 363 births · Last seen for boys in 2001 at #10,556
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 2,868 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 61,464since 1956
Karina over time
Rank among girls' names. Karina has never cracked the top 100 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 | #749 | 363 | — | |
| 2024 | #772 | 365 | — | |
| 2023 | #759 | 370 | — | |
| 2022 | #700 | 421 | — | |
| 2021 | #677 | 432 | — | |
| 2020 | #610 | 477 | — | |
| 2019 | #571 | 532 | — | |
| 2018 | #596 | 511 | — | |
| 2017 | #548 | 564 | — | |
| 2016 | #492 | 633 | — | |
| 2015 | #459 | 691 | — | |
| 2014 | #432 | 740 | — | |
| 2013 | #388 | 802 | — | |
| 2012 | #366 | 858 | — | |
| 2011 | #341 | 933 | — | |
| 2010 | #293 | 1,112 | — | |
| 2009 | #294 | 1,122 | — | |
| 2008 | #237 | 1,444 | — | |
| 2007 | #217 | 1,589 | — | |
| 2006 | #225 | 1,530 | — | |
| 2005 | #212 | 1,630 | — | |
| 2004 | #197 | 1,734 | — | |
| 2003 | #169 | 1,976 | — | |
| 2002 | #168 | 1,959 | — | |
| 2001 | #166 | 1,963 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #159 | 2,133 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #135 | 2,378 | — | |
| 1998 | #144 | 2,235 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #132 | 2,374 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #108 | 2,868 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #109 | 2,985 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #140 | 2,262 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #143 | 2,202 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #158 | 1,949 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #165 | 1,795 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #188 | 1,564 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #182 | 1,539 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #204 | 1,288 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #288 | 849 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #334 | 722 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #351 | 671 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #349 | 658 | — | |
| 1983 | #349 | 647 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #351 | 667 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #357 | 656 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #351 | 674 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #417 | 506 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #424 | 478 | — | |
| 1977 | #475 | 406 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #534 | 328 | — | |
| 1975 | #587 | 276 | — | |
| 1974 | #709 | 206 | — | |
| 1973 | #757 | 180 | — | |
| 1972 | #784 | 174 | — | |
| 1971 | #870 | 154 | — | |
| 1970 | #877 | 152 | — | |
| 1969 | #975 | 121 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,056 | 99 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,348 | 66 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,351 | 65 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,256 | 73 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,393 | 65 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,787 | 42 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,126 | 93 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,666 | 46 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,862 | 17 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karina! It came in at #3,696, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1957, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.
Where Karina is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#114 · 1 in 562
- Washington#140 · 1 in 613
- Arizona#156 · 1 in 672
- Texas#157 · 1 in 739
- Rhode Island#172 · 1 in 591
Best ever in a state: #34 in California, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #114 | 418 | 1 in 562 |
| Washington | #140 | 50 | 1 in 613 |
| Arizona | #156 | 57 | 1 in 672 |
| Texas | #157 | 225 | 1 in 739 |
| Rhode Island | #172 | 6 | 1 in 591 |
| Illinois | #176 | 83 | 1 in 821 |
| District of Columbia | #185 | 6 | 1 in 549 |
| Florida | #191 | 96 | 1 in 928 |
| Oregon | #209 | 20 | 1 in 825 |
| New Jersey | #229 | 35 | 1 in 1,163 |
| Colorado | #232 | 26 | 1 in 974 |
| New York | #233 | 78 | 1 in 1,238 |
| Nevada | #240 | 14 | 1 in 893 |
| Idaho | #247 | 8 | 1 in 877 |
| Minnesota | #251 | 24 | 1 in 1,119 |
| North Carolina | #275 | 38 | 1 in 1,239 |
| Georgia | #277 | 41 | 1 in 1,313 |
| Alabama | #281 | 17 | 1 in 1,199 |
| New Mexico | #287 | 8 | 1 in 1,053 |
| Iowa | #288 | 11 | 1 in 1,280 |
| Maryland | #289 | 19 | 1 in 1,323 |
| Oklahoma | #291 | 14 | 1 in 1,250 |
| Connecticut | #296 | 10 | 1 in 1,375 |
| Indiana | #298 | 23 | 1 in 1,438 |
| Nebraska | #301 | 7 | 1 in 1,203 |
| Wisconsin | #319 | 17 | 1 in 1,481 |
| Massachusetts | #326 | 17 | 1 in 1,672 |
| Kansas | #351 | 9 | 1 in 1,535 |
| Arkansas | #371 | 8 | 1 in 1,561 |
| Virginia | #419 | 18 | 1 in 2,104 |
| Michigan | #420 | 21 | 1 in 2,247 |
| Utah | #421 | 10 | 1 in 1,887 |
| Pennsylvania | #424 | 25 | 1 in 2,213 |
| South Carolina | #473 | 9 | 1 in 2,106 |
| Missouri | #477 | 12 | 1 in 2,475 |
| Kentucky | #588 | 6 | 1 in 3,384 |
| Ohio | #682 | 13 | 1 in 4,408 |
| Tennessee | #780 | 7 | 1 in 4,540 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Karina
- 23 spots since 2024 (#772 → #749)
- 139 spots since 2020 (#610 → #749)
- 290 spots since 2015 (#459 → #749)
- Biggest jump: 122 spots in 1975 (#709 → #587)
- Biggest drop: 67 spots in 2021 (#610 → #677)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1996 at #108 (2,868 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1969–2025
- Highest: 1 in 589 girls born in 1995 were named Karina (0.17%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,428 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #108 in 1996, was only 1 in 611 (0.16%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.8% of all girls named Karina (22,612) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 51 | #2,862 (1958) | #3,504 |
| 1960s | 686 | #975 (1969) | #1,505 |
| 1970s | 2,860 | #417 (1979) | #643 |
| 1980s | 8,371 | #182 (1989) | #312 |
| 1990s | 22,612 | #108 (1996) | #142 |
| 2000s | 17,080 | #159 (2000) | #204 |
| 2010s | 7,376 | #293 (2010) | #449 |
| 2020s | 2,428 | #610 (2020) | #711 |
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.
Karina in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 1,243 of them was named Karina, which outranked 98.9% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #222Aniyah1,547
- #223Esmeralda1,538
- #224Vivian1,536
- #225Karina1,530
- #225Julissa1,530
- #227Jazmine1,529
- #228Fatima1,515
- #229Allie1,510
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.