Carina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɾina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 220(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 63as Kaarina
- BYBelarus≈1 in 363as Карина
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Carina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #268 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- 1 in 220 (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 named Карина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Karina in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil and 1 more and Карина in RU Russia, FI Finland, BY Belarus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Carina is read(measured from records)
Carina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish61%
Femenino de Carinos; en italiano, ‘graciosa, amable’, diminutivo de caro ‘querido’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Carina in Portuguese.
- English9.6%
A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.8%
weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #95 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 651 | #61 | Карина | 184 |
| BR Brazil | #183 | 119,600as Karina | 1 in 1.8K | 120K | Karina | 216 |
| FI Finland | #462 | 88,967as Kaarina | 1 in 63 | 135K | Карина | 13 |
| AR Argentina | #90 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 541 | 38 | Karina | 155 |
| US United States | #873 | 78,579as Karina | 1 in 4.2K | 78K | Karina | 477 |
| SE Sweden | #917 | 46,385 | 1 in 220 | 46K | Carina | 51 |
| BY Belarus | #91 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 363 | — | Карина | 30 |
| DK Denmark | — | 11,682as Karina | 1 in 502 | 12K | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | #575 | 3,961as Karīna | 1 in 475 | 4K | Karina | 59 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Carina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Carina är ett latinskt namn, femininform till Carinus, som i sin tur är bildat till carus ’kär’. Det kan också vara en form av → Katarina. Det var bland de allra mest populära namnen under 1960-talet. En känd namnbärare är författaren Carina Rydberg (f. 1962). I den rikssvenska almanackan 7 maj och i den finlandssvenska 4 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Du latin carina, « quille »; aussi forme affective de Cara.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Amata / Proveniente dalla Caria
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carina Lidbomb. 1957SESwedish actor and comedian
- Carina Laub. 1965CNHong Kong actress
- Carina Wieseb. 1970DEGerman actress
- Carina Zampinib. 1975ARArgentine actress
- Carina Bergb. 1977SESwedish radio & TV personality
- Aib. 1981USnot in their usual nameJapanese-American singer-songwriter
- Carina Dahlb. 1985NONorwegian singer
- Carina Kühneb. 1985DEGerman actress
- Carina Vogtb. 1992DEGerman ski jumper
- Carina Witthöftb. 1995DEGerman tennis player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 95 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 64K | #655 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 51K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 51K | #556 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 46K | #86 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 30K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,689 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4.5K | #152 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.7K | #452 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.9K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1990 | 389 | #18 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 385 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 195 | #556 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Carina mean, and where does it come from?
- A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carina?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Carina?
- In the etymology graph, Cheryl, Kathy and Tina are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kara and Karaugh.
- In which country does Carina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 218 thousand people named Карина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Carina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carina is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 220 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Carina a male or female name?
- Carina 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.
- How common is the name Carina?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 46,385 people named Carina, about 1 in 220 residents.
- How common is Carina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Carina is the 95th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Carina” — the 95th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.