girls:
60.7k births since 1956
#516 (91st percentile)
boys:
253 births since 1977
#4333 (5th percentile)
overall:
61k births since 1956
#950 (88th percentile)
The name Karina is the #950 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 60,972 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 87.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #516 (91.0% percentile) for all time with 60,719 births since 1956. For boys, it ranks #4,333 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 253 births since 1977.
Karina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for girls and 1977 for boys).
The name Karina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Karina reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 87.5% percentile (ranked #108) with 1,496 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 1,553 births per million (ranked 87.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karina ranks #607 for girls (35.9% percentile) with 209 births per million, which is 13.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Karina reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #737) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karina".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Karina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.8% confident that Karina is pronounced as kuh-REE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-REE-nuh, at 22.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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