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Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Swedish younger form of Kadhrin (see Katrina) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
2) Swedish short form of Karolina (see Carolina) [1]
See also -rin
Related Names
See also Kajsa, Karen, Kari and Karina
For male forms see Karinius, Karinus
Male
Female
Karinardóttir
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Karinsdotter
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Combinations
For combinations see KA (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Karin
|
Genitive: |
Karins
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Karin
|
Accusative: |
Karina
|
Dative: |
Karini
|
Genitive: |
Karinar
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Karin
|
Genitive: |
Karinin
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Partitive: |
Karinia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Karin
|
Accusative: |
Karin
|
Dative: |
Karin
|
Genitive: |
Karinar
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Karin
|
Genitive: |
Karins
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Karin
|
Genitive: |
Karins
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Name Days
Faroe Islands
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2 August
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Norway
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2 August
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
25 November
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Sweden
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2 August
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Karin Månsdotter (6 November 1550 - 13 September 1612), Queen of Sweden, first a mistress and then the spouse of King Erik XIV of Sweden
- Karin Larsson (née Bergöö, 3 October 1859 – 18 February 1928), Swedish artist and designer
- Karin Michaëlis (née Katharina Marie Bech Brøndum, 20 March 1872 - 11 January 1950), Danish journalist and author
- Karin Maria Boye (26 October 1900 – 24 April 1941), Swedish poet and novelist
- Karin Ann-Marie Söder (née Bergenfur, 30 November 1928 – 19 December 2015), Swedish politician
- Karin Bang Brynildsen (3 December 1928 – 20 August 2017), Norwegian poet, novelist, children's writer and crime writer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 174,543 people were named Karin (percentage of first or only given name: 83 %) [12]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[15] |
|
60046 |
151285 |
60039 |
151271 |
7 |
14 |
Denmark[16] |
|
14700 |
n.a. |
14698 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
Finland[17] |
|
n.a. |
9087 |
n.a. |
9087 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[18] |
|
48 |
69 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[19] |
|
12 |
17 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[20] |
|
11545 |
n.a. |
11545 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [15][16][20][17]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [21]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Karin (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables