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Karyne

Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Karen

Karyne has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1949. 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 1963, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Karyne, 2000

1 in 756,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karyne: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Karen

Ancient Greek and English

What Karyne means

Karyne belongs to the name family reached through Karyne → Karen → Catherine. Its meaning is “each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Karyne is used in English and French. Its origins include Ancient Greek and English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karen, Karine and Catherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Karyne between 1949 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1963; its best national rank was #5,624 in 1949.

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 Karyne?

Karyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 756,000
5 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
523,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karyne 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 2000 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 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karyne was born before 1963 — so the typical Karyne is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
16
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1960s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Karyne 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (6)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,624
1949

Spellings of Karyne

Karyne is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 73.3% against Karyne's <0.01%.

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.

Karyne around the world

Where Karyne 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.

  • France
    1961–1998
    #4,632
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1991–1997
    #1,357
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1953–1990
    #691
    in 1990

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

Karyne 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
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Best rank ever
#5,624
1949
Peak year
1963
6 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karyne

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

KarlyneKarasiKarolyneKaralyneKarayaKarshaKarennKaryahKariseKartyrKarielKarlahKarranKarentKarmoniKarenyKardynKarderKarverKariyaKaryleDavyneKarrynKarana

Sibling names for Karyne

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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