Name Awesome

Karyna

#14,039 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Karina

Karyna has been given to 858 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #14,039 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Karyna, 2025

1 in 553,000

Karyna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karyna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Karina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karyna means

Karyna is a form of Karina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Karyna is used in Ukrainian and Belarusian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kɐ.ˈrɪ.nɐ/ and /ka.ˈrɨ.na/ for Karyna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Karyna → Karina → Karin → Karin → Katarina → Αἰκατερίνη. The family’s proposed meaning is “Hecate or each of the two”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements Hekátē and hekáteros.

Origin, language, and formation

Karyna is used in Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Karyna is pronounced /kaˈrɘ.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 858 girls were recorded with the name Karyna between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1997; its best national rank was #2,898 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,598 in 2020 to #14,039 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,429 in 2015 to #14,039 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 Karyna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,039
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karyna 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karyna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karyna was born before 2000 — so the typical Karyna is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
858
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (289).

Is Karyna 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,441
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,390
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1997 (42)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,898
1997

Spellings of Karyna

Karyna is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 46.9% against Karyna's 0.04%.

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 Karyna is used

Across 1910–2025, Karyna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 163,214 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New 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. Karyna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karyna around the world

Where Karyna 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
    2019–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    2001–2019
    #7,261
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1970–1986
    #667
    in 1986

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

Karyna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,039
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,441
Best rank ever
#2,898
1997
Peak year
1997
42 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
858
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Karyna

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

KarminKarineKarmanKariahKareliKarimaKarolynaKarsenKareemaKarsonKarymeKarmynKarlynKarimeKarelyKarizmaKarianaKarysKarrahKareenaKaroleKaralynKariyahKarena

Sibling names for Karyna

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

Explore around Karyna

Top names of 1997, Karyna's peak yearThe 1990s in fullOther names that peaked in 1997Girls' names starting with KUncommon Polish Girl Names