Karin Forename
602nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,304,805 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Liechtenstein
Karin Forename User-submission:
The Scandinavian and Greek meaning of the name Karin is 'pure' or' virginal'. The Japanese meaning is 'summer forest'. Karin is the Hebrew word for 'ray of sunlight'.
Karin Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 757,143 | 1:128 | 21 |
| Sweden | 100% | 120,543 | 1:82 | 7 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 82,895 | 1:204 | 12 |
| United States | 100% | 63,676 | 1:5,693 | 768 |
| Austria | 100% | 57,740 | 1:147 | 27 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 38,922 | 1:211 | 40 |
| Denmark | - | 18,841 | 1:300 | 72 |
| Norway | 100% | 17,867 | 1:287 | 62 |
| South Africa | 100% | 17,574 | 1:3,103 | 582 |
| Peru | 99% | 13,069 | 1:2,433 | 458 |
| Belgium | 100% | 12,891 | 1:891 | 209 |
| Brazil | 100% | 9,619 | 1:22,272 | 1,997 |
| Chile | 98% | 8,712 | 1:2,021 | 306 |
| Canada | 100% | 6,859 | 1:4,831 | 753 |
| England | 100% | 5,911 | 1:9,407 | 760 |
| Mozambique | - | 5,760 | 1:4,730 | 908 |
| Guatemala | 99% | 4,294 | 1:3,751 | 530 |
| Estonia | 100% | 4,049 | 1:325 | 53 |
| Australia | - | 3,968 | 1:3,442 | 535 |
| Czechia | 100% | 3,883 | 1:2,744 | 267 |
| Italy | 100% | 3,419 | 1:17,860 | 815 |
| Israel | 100% | 3,328 | 1:2,525 | 502 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 3,097 | 1:9,752 | 1,049 |
| France | 100% | 2,883 | 1:23,056 | 986 |
| Egypt | 85% | 2,386 | 1:38,517 | 2,428 |
| Thailand | 56% | 2,328 | 1:30,097 | 3,740 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 2,040 | 1:1,205 | 279 |
| Somaliland | - | 2,004 | 1:1,747 | 284 |
| Finland | 100% | 1,858 | 1:2,951 | 446 |
| Indonesia | 93% | 1,671 | 1:154,377 | 15,908 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1,617 | 1:349 | 79 |
| India | 79% | 1,528 | 1:795,077 | 55,848 |
| Argentina | 98% | 1,335 | 1:32,040 | 1,152 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,232 | 1:3,682 | 593 |
| Mexico | 69% | 1,209 | 1:102,684 | 2,593 |
| Poland | 100% | 1,084 | 1:35,080 | 1,050 |
| Spain | 90% | 1,071 | 1:43,445 | 1,848 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 914 | 1:11,599 | 1,105 |
| Ecuador | - | 879 | 1:20,167 | 1,165 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 840 | 1:12,418 | 1,367 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 833 | 1:6,375 | 346 |
| Scotland | 100% | 785 | 1:6,816 | 567 |
| Colombia | 99% | 732 | 1:65,272 | 2,587 |
| Honduras | 100% | 686 | 1:12,853 | 1,153 |
| Suriname | 100% | 642 | 1:861 | 152 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 502 | 1:75 | 4 |
| Philippines | 94% | 494 | 1:214,594 | 9,311 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 458 | 1:348,169 | 14,530 |
| Portugal | - | 452 | 1:23,033 | 1,042 |
| Paraguay | 96% | 391 | 1:18,508 | 1,260 |
| Greece | 100% | 390 | 1:28,037 | 1,243 |
| Turkey | 100% | 339 | 1:229,504 | 4,768 |
| Wales | 100% | 313 | 1:9,886 | 804 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 291 | 1:105,885 | 10,050 |
| Japan | 100% | 288 | 1:444,396 | 10,423 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Panama | 100% | 275 | 1:14,206 | 1,633 |
| Ireland | 100% | 269 | 1:17,262 | 940 |
| Croatia | 100% | 268 | 1:15,735 | 984 |
| Cambodia | 60% | 260 | 1:62,590 | 3,430 |
| Lebanon | 99% | 253 | 1:22,243 | 1,604 |
| Morocco | - | 246 | 1:139,629 | 4,172 |
| Pakistan | 88% | 246 | 1:790,072 | 15,222 |
| Russia | 73% | 238 | 1:606,024 | 6,172 |
| Ghana | - | 225 | 1:119,939 | 4,817 |
| Malaysia | 59% | 200 | 1:152,250 | 9,509 |
| Nepal | 99% | 185 | 1:153,986 | 7,253 |
| Namibia | - | 176 | 1:13,660 | 1,463 |
| China | - | 169 | 1:8,083,170 | 59,466 |
| Singapore | 100% | 151 | 1:41,636 | 6,591 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 143 | 1:344 | 56 |
| Romania | 100% | 142 | 1:141,211 | 5,574 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 142 | 1:24,138 | 1,213 |
| Costa Rica | 96% | 133 | 1:35,849 | 1,856 |
| Nicaragua | 89% | 132 | 1:45,593 | 2,318 |
| Uganda | 98% | 128 | 1:319,976 | 9,014 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 120 | 1:1,298 | 354 |
| Hong Kong | - | 113 | 1:68,608 | 2,630 |
| Bahrain | - | 89 | 1:15,154 | 2,209 |
| Papua New Guinea | 80% | 88 | 1:92,640 | 8,562 |
| El Salvador | - | 86 | 1:73,742 | 1,877 |
| Hungary | 100% | 82 | 1:119,412 | 787 |
| Cameroon | 79% | 71 | 1:304,373 | 11,404 |
| Malta | - | 68 | 1:6,314 | 764 |
| Iran | 100% | 66 | 1:1,189,346 | 9,389 |
| Nigeria | 73% | 66 | 1:2,690,369 | 48,718 |
| Bahamas | - | 61 | 1:6,547 | 958 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 48 | 1:1,538,075 | 40,404 |
| Botswana | - | 47 | 1:46,478 | 4,592 |
| Kuwait | - | 47 | 1:80,538 | 6,521 |
| Greenland | - | 44 | 1:1,281 | 267 |
| Aruba | - | 42 | 1:2,471 | 502 |
| Kazakhstan | 75% | 39 | 1:455,047 | 7,005 |
| Sudan | - | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 36 | 1:428,439 | 20,391 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 35 | 1:204,343 | 13,030 |
| Iraq | 100% | 34 | 1:1,029,937 | 8,327 |
| Jamaica | - | 33 | 1:87,371 | 3,958 |
| Bulgaria | 94% | 32 | 1:218,450 | 5,251 |
| Iceland | 75% | 32 | 1:11,438 | 985 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 28 | 1:848,917 | 35,704 |
| Armenia | 100% | 27 | 1:108,102 | 2,651 |
| Monaco | 100% | 26 | 1:1,479 | 318 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 26 | 1:10,391 | 1,033 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 26 | 1:52,362 | 4,622 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 22 | 1:83,779 | 1,413 |
| Belarus | 92% | 20 | 1:474,119 | 3,101 |
| Kenya | - | 20 | 1:2,315,356 | 20,763 |
| Qatar | 100% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| Seychelles | - | 19 | 1:4,877 | 888 |
| Benin | 100% | 18 | 1:587,547 | 18,316 |
| Serbia | 100% | 17 | 1:420,337 | 4,618 |
| Zambia | - | 17 | 1:932,635 | 15,302 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 15 | 1:3,519,221 | 24,304 |
| Belize | 100% | 13 | 1:27,255 | 2,702 |
| Jersey | - | 13 | 1:7,691 | 755 |
| Guyana | 100% | 12 | 1:63,605 | 5,544 |
| Ivory Coast | 57% | 12 | 1:1,922,994 | 45,079 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 10 | 1:6,130 | 975 |
| Jordan | 94% | 10 | 1:882,677 | 4,972 |
| South Korea | - | 10 | 1:554,442 | 13,303 |
| Ethiopia | - | 9 | 1:10,840,015 | 14,737 |
| Gabon | 100% | 9 | 1:209,260 | 2,118 |
| Swaziland | - | 9 | 1:144,464 | 1,815 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 8 | 1:4,077,940 | 25,891 |
| Palestine | 100% | 8 | 1:568,757 | 3,306 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 8 | 1:13,718 | 1,590 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 7 | 1:507,186 | 3,923 |
| Algeria | - | 6 | 1:6,362,787 | 10,855 |
| Bermuda | - | 6 | 1:10,804 | 1,174 |
| Haiti | - | 6 | 1:1,787,826 | 19,076 |
| Maldives | 100% | 6 | 1:72,317 | 2,029 |
| Tunisia | - | 6 | 1:112,817 | 6,145 |
| Vietnam | - | 6 | 1:15,437,186 | 4,625 |
| Guinea | 100% | 5 | 1:2,371,729 | 4,683 |
| Angola | 100% | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 4 | 1:2,410,736 | 23,569 |
| Burkina Faso | 67% | 4 | 1:4,594,867 | 56,462 |
| Georgia | 75% | 4 | 1:934,616 | 13,351 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Liberia | 67% | 4 | 1:1,103,015 | 25,024 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Mali | - | 4 | 1:4,244,439 | 5,329 |
| Rwanda | - | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 4 | 1:13,715 | 1,549 |
| Tajikistan | - | 4 | 1:2,093,730 | 5,016 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Grenada | 100% | 3 | 1:36,042 | 2,687 |
| Kosovo | - | 3 | 1:620,480 | 13,695 |
| Syria | - | 3 | 1:6,435,358 | 7,086 |
| Albania | - | 2 | 1:1,523,285 | 33,816 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Cuba | - | 2 | 1:5,753,276 | 9,613 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Moldova | - | 2 | 1:1,780,570 | 7,407 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Senegal | - | 2 | 1:7,290,678 | 24,413 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Abkhazia | - | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Congo | - | 1 | 1:5,009,205 | 37,978 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 1 | 1:580,957 | 8,641 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Transnistria | - | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
The alternate forms: Karín (42), Kárin (8), Karïn (2) & Karìn (1) are calculated separately.
Karin (8,152) may also be a surname.
Karin Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
The Scandinavian and Greek meaning of the name Karin is 'pure' or' virginal'. The Japanese meaning is 'summer forest'. Karin is the Hebrew word for 'ray of sunlight'.
- emma04Karin Forename Popularity
Karin Demographics
Average Karin Salary in
United States
$49,601 USD
Per year
Rank:
130,479 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0181652
Rank: 721 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
113.95%
Sample size: 30,190 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Karin Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Karin in the Russian language | ||
| Карин | karin | - |
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