Karina: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced kah-REE-nuh · 3 syllables

Karina means “middle-aged woman”, from Greek and English and French.

Borrowed from English Karina, a variant of French Karine.

How popular is Karina?

Karina was the #749 name in the US in 2025, given to 363 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 48% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1990.

Babies named Karina in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 1990).

Half of US adults named Karina are older than 31; most are between 19 and 51. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Karina have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Karina means “middle-aged woman”. It comes from Greek and English and French.

Karina is pronounced kah-REE-nuh.

Karina was the #749 name in the US in 2025, given to 363 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 48% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1990.

Half of US adults named Karina are older than 31. Most are between 19 and 51.