Kareena is a Sanskrit-derived variant of Karina — from karuṇa (compassion) or alternately the Spanish-Italian Carina ("beloved"). Kareena Kapoor Khan (born 1980) — Indian actress nicknamed "Bebo" and "Bollywood Princess"; daughter of actor Randhir Kapoor and the great-granddaughter of Prithviraj Kapoor (the patriarch of India's first family of cinema, the Kapoor family — four generations of Hindi film stars). *Six Filmfare Awards including Best Actress for Jab We Met (2007); Padma Shri (2018). Married actor Saif Ali Khan in 2012. Pregnancy in public life — her 2016 and 2021 pregnancies, during which she continued working, normalized maternal visibility in Indian cinema. Author of Pregnancy Bible (2021). Highest-paid female actor in Bollywood for much of the 2010s*.
Featured throughout 2000s-2020s Bollywood.
Kareena 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kareena reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.