girls:
4.5k births since 1939
#2532 (56th percentile)
boys:
67 births since 2020
#4519 (1st percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1939
#4037 (48th percentile)
The name Carin is the #4,037 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,583 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 47.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,532 (55.7% percentile) for all time with 4,516 births since 1939. For boys, it ranks #4,519 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 2020.
Carin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (1939 for girls and 2020 for boys). Birth data for Carin is available in 80 out of the 85 years between 1939 and 2023 (76 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Carin has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Carin were girls. Interestingly, until around 2020, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1939 to 2019), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2020 to 2023).
For girls, Carin reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 22.0% percentile (ranked #603) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 102 births per million (ranked 20.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Carin reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #893) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Carin is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #893 (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Carin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.1% confident that Carin is pronounced as KEH-rihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-rihn, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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