Kaarina
Kaarina is a Finnish female given name. Its nameday is celebrated on 25 November. It reached its peak of popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. As of 2013 there were 132,000 women registered with this name in Finland. It is listed by the Finnish Population Register Centre as one of the top 10 most popular female given names ever.
Meaning & Origin of Kaarina
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kaarina is a Finnish female given name. Its nameday is celebrated on 25 November. It reached its peak of popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. As of 2013 there were 132,000 women registered with this name in Finland. It is listed by the Finnish Population Register Centre as one of the top 10 most popular female given names ever.
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The Story of Kaarina
American parents first put Kaarina on the record books as a baby girl name in 1977, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2019, when 7 Kaarinas were born — ranking #12,446 that year. About 41% of every Kaarina on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Kaarina last appeared in the published SSA data in 2019, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 29 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Notable people named Kaarina
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- Kaarina Aalto (1920–1994), Finnish physician and politician
- Kaarina Goldberg , Finnish author
- Kaarina Immonen , Finnish politician
- Kaarina Multiala (died before 1571), Finnish merchant
- Kaarina Suonio (born 1941), Finnish retired politician and psychologist
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Names that sound like Kaarina
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About the name Kaarina
Kaarina is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1977 and has accumulated 29 births in the dataset. Kaarina's peak popularity came in 2019 when it ranked #12,446. Use the chart and map above to compare Kaarina's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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