Kaarina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kaarina är en finsk form av → Karin och → Katarina
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɛɹinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaarina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common surname.
- FIFinland≈1 in 67K(inferred from the name graph)
- NANamibia≈1 in 48K
- SESweden≈1 in 2.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈83 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kaarina är en finsk form av → Karin och → Katarina.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaarina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #87 | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 135K | Kaarina | 63 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 2 | — | 6 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 3.8K | Kaarina | 29 |
| US United States | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 270M | 186 | Kaarina | 96 |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Kaarina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., finnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Diana Kaarinab. 1975CACanadian actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 135K | #5 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 89K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.8K | #720 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 583 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 582 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 580 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 576 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 573 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 569 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 561 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 554 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 542 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Kaarina?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɛɹinə/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- What does the name Kaarina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kaarina är en finsk form av → Karin och → Katarina.
- How common is the name Kaarina?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 people in Finland have Kaarina as their first surname, about 1 in 67 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Kaarina compared with other names?
- In Finland, Kaarina is the 87th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Kaarina?
- In the etymology graph, Cato, Cate and Caja are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kaarina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 people named Kaarina in Finland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaarina.
What do you want to know about Kaarina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaarinaThe 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, “Kaarina” — the 87th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.