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Karina

Karina is a girl's name meaning "Pure; or Latin keel (Carina)", drawing on Latin roots. It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1995.

EtymologyVariant of Katherine/Carina
Latin"Pure"; or Latin "keel" (Carina)
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
51
1960s
686
1970s
2,873
1980s
8,485
1990s
22,720
2000s
17,087
2010s
6,318
Peaked in the 1990s · 58,220 total U.S. births since 1900