girl's name

Carina

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 19,504

Scotland

#849

2024 births

Carina is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 134 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 1995, when 694 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 24,741 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1914.

Carina over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

5,246
'10 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Carina by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1910s 11
1940s 11
1950s 66
1960s 355
1970s 1,214
1980s 2,622
1990s 5,246
2000s 3,652
2010s 2,416
2020s (to 2025) 936

How popular is Carina?

In 2025, Carina was given to 134 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Carina is used

Scotland #849 3 in 2024
Ireland #981 3 in 2024
Canada #1,202 21 in 2024
United States #1,574 134 in 2025
England & Wales #2,486 11 in 2025
France #6,015 5 in 2024

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Carina

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Carina also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Carina over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Carina in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Icelandic
Sarina
Japanese
Sarina
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Carine Carena

Sibling names for Carina

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Carina — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Carina

How popular is the name Carina?

In 2025, Carina was given to 134 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Carina a girl's or a boy's name?

Carina is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Carina most popular?

Carina peaked in 1995, when 694 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Carina a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Carina currently ranks #849 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.