Karine
Fewer than 350 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A French take on Katherine, tracing back to the Greek for "pure".
Karine Pronunciation
Karine is pronounced kah-REE-ne (/kaˈrinɛ/).
What Karine means
Where Karine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Karine came into French from Katherine, and Katherine reaches back to the Greek Aikaterine. The tie to the word katharos, meaning "pure," was fastened onto the name long after it first appeared, so the sense of purity is a later reading rather than the actual root. French speakers trimmed the longer form down to Karine, a short and easy shape.
The variant Karina travels alongside it. Both are common across Poland.
On a Polish school register, Karine sits near Karina and Katarzyna, three forms of one old name. It reads as French to a Polish ear, a small foreign borrowing. Whatever the Greek root once carried, the warmth people attach to it now is plain. In Polish the name reads as kochana, urocza.
How many people are named Karine
1 in 69580 women in Poland is named Karine. 324 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1675 among female names.
Karine as a middle name
Karine is a first name for 324 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2003rd, between Kala (14) and Karoliina (14).
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#2001 Joelle14
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#2002 Kala14
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#2003 Karine14
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#2004 Karoliina14
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#2005 Kudzaishe14