Entry № 1754 · Latin origin

Carina Carina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-REE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"The keel; dear one"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the keel; dear one".

Carina is a southern constellation, the keel of the great ship Argo; in Latin the word also means dear or beloved.

Bright and warm, it pairs the night sky with a note of affection.

The keel; dear one — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Carina
Transliteration
Carina
Pronunciation
/ kaˈɾi.na /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Carina stands.

Carina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Carinas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Carina.

The number behind Carina.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Carina reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.