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Carine

Girls' name

Possibly pure, chaste

Carine has been given to 617 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1981, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Carine, 2021

1 in 484,000

Carine over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carine: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly pure, chaste

Ancient Greek and Old Norse

What Carine means

Carine may mean “pure, chaste”, associated with katharós.

Origin, language, and formation

Carine is used in French and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karine, Carina and Katrina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Carine is pronounced /ka.ʁin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 617 girls were recorded with the name Carine between 1915 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1981; its best national rank was #3,177 in 1915.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carine?

Carine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carine was born before 1984 — so the typical Carine is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
552
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Carine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (19)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,177
1915

Spellings of Carine

Carine is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 27.2% against Carine's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carine is used

Across 1910–2025, Carine was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,425,959 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carine around the world

Where Carine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2013
    #4,739
    in 2013
  • Scotland
    1985–1985
    #565
    in 1985
  • France
    1905–2025
    #6,537
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2000
    #449
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1948–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Carine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,177
1915
Peak year
1981
19 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
617
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Carine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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