Karina

Where Karina comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Karina.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Karina through the years
  1. 1956
    First appearance
    #3,696 among girls with 11 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Karina Lombard born
    French-American actress
  3. 1983
    Karina Maruyama born
    Japanese tarento and footballer
  4. 1996
    Peak, #108
    2,868 babies named Karina, its best rank.
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #294.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage, a form of Karin (Catherine) long used in Scandinavia, or from Carina.
Namesakes
  • Karina Maruyama · Japanese tarento and footballer, born 1983
  • Karina Lombard · French-American actress, born 1969
  • Karina Aznavourian · Russian épée fencer, born 1974
  • Karina Bryant · British judoka, born 1979
  • Karina Pankievich · Uruguayan trans activist and a human rights defender, born 1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.