Kine

Girls' name

Diminutive of Kristine

Kine has been given to 8 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2003, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Kine, 2003

1 in 475,000

Kine over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kine: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Kristine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kine means

Kine is a diminutive of Kristine.

Origin, language, and formation

Kine is used in Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kristine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8 girls were recorded with the name Kine between 2003 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2003; its best national rank was #11,886 in 2003.

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 Kine?

Kine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003: 1 in 475,000; 8 of 3,801,425 births
Among girls only: 1 in 228,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2003: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 329,370 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kine 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 2003 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 329,370 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kines were born

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

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 8; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Kine 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2003 (8)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,886; 2003

Spellings of Kine

Kine is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 18.8% against Kine's <0.01%.

Diane18.8%518,651
Jane13.8%379,876
Anne11.8%325,128
Tina10.6%292,146
June7.5%205,556
Kim6.5%179,817
Gina5.5%153,057
Nina4.9%133,788

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.

Kine around the world

Where Kine 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
2002–2025
#6,724
in 2025
Norway
1880–2025
#391
in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Kine 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: #11,886; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 8 that year
First recorded: 2003
Last recorded: 2003
All-time count: 8
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kine

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

Kini Kind Kin Kinte Kinta Kinuko King Kinue Vine Kinika Kinder Kiniya Kleine Kinna Kinli Kinita Kinnie Kinady Kiniah Kinari Kinsli Kindy Maine Kindness

Sibling names for Kine

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

For a sister

Shreya Anastacia Delanie Abigale Ashtyn Hailie Sydnee Iyana

For a brother

Alexandre Jair Estevan Dallin Zakary Domenic Octavio Alexandro

Explore around Kine

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