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Karlina

#16,072 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Karlina has been given to 328 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #16,072 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Karlina, 2025

1 in 663,000

Karlina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karlina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karlina means

Karlina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Karlina is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 328 girls were recorded with the name Karlina between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2013; its best national rank was #7,070 in 1990.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,796 in 2015 to #16,072 in 2025.

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 Karlina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,072
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karlina 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karlina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karlinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karlina was born before 2003 — so the typical Karlina is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
328
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Karlina 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
−6,276
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 2013 (15)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,070
1990

Spellings of Karlina

Karlina is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 14.3% against Karlina's 0.05%.

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.

Karlina around the world

Where Karlina 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
    2012–2012
    #4,838
    in 2012
  • France
    2007–2007
    #6,640
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1996–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Karlina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,072
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,070
1990
Peak year
2013
15 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
328
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Karlina

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

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Sibling names for Karlina

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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