girls:
16.2k births since 1914
#1176 (79th percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1983
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
16.2k births since 1914
#2032 (74th percentile)
The name Carina is the #2,032 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,246 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 73.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,176 (79.4% percentile) for all time with 16,211 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1983.
Carina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Carina is available in 75 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (75 years for girls and 6 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 Carina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Carina reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 58.8% percentile (ranked #350) with 359 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 359 births per million (ranked 58.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Carina ranks #796 for girls (16.0% percentile) with 89 births per million, which is 24.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Carina reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #766) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carina".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Carina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.4% confident that Carina is pronounced as kuh-REE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-RAI-nuh, at 18.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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