Karina is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Karina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Karina ranks 471. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Karina. In the entire USA, approximately 57,745 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Karina. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Karina is a variant of Karin, a Scandinavian short form of Katherine, which derives from the Greek name Aikaterine. Its origin is unclear, it could for example derive from the Greek word “hekateros” and would mean “each of the two”, or from “katharos” meaning “pure”.
Karina can also be... a spelling variant of Carina, a Latin name meaning 'beloved' or 'precious'.
Karina is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Karina - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 106 in 1996. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Karina really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Karina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
416 babies were named Karina in 2022 - that's 1 in 356,327 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Karina ranked 636 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Karina is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Karina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Karina, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Karina sounds like this:
