Entry № 5244 · Scandinavian origin

Karina Karina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-REE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scandinavian
Meaning
"Pure (Anna Karina, French New Wave; Karina Smirnoff DWTS)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Scandinavian)

A name that means "pure (anna karina, french new wave; karina smirnoff dwts)".

Karina is the Scandinavian and Slavic form of Catherine — from the Greek Aikaterine / katharos ("pure"). Martinez (2011). Karina Vetrano — American track athlete. Karina Bacchi — Brazilian TV personality. Karina in Spanish-speaking countries is a top-100 girls' name in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil; in Russian/Polish/Ukrainian families it's been one of the top-50 names since the 1980s. Karina Garcia — American YouTuber.

Pure. Anna Karina was the iconic muse of Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave (7 films, 1961-1965).

The name in its native script.

Karina
Transliteration
Karina
Pronunciation
/ kəˈriː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Karina stands.

Karina 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.

Karinas before her.

Real people
Anna Karina
Danish-French New Wave actress.
1940 – 2019
Karina Smirnoff
Ukrainian-American DWTS dancer.
born 1978
Karina Lombard
Lakota-Tahitian actress.
born 1969
In fiction
Karina
Various French New Wave roles.

Names connected to Karina.

The number behind Karina.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Karina reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.