first name
CARINA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 18,338 people named Carina, 55.9% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 29.2% as White and 8.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Carina peaked in 1995, when 694 babies got the name.
At least 16,529 babies have been given the name since 1914. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Carina by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #913. The largest share of babies named Carina, 38.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Carina is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Carina has been most common in California (3.6×), Arizona (1.9×), and Washington (1.8×), and least common in Indiana (0.13×).
13,438 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Carina, most common first.
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