Entry № 5233 · Swedish origin

Karin Karin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Swedish
Meaning
"Pure"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "pure".

Karin is a name of Swedish origin, meaning pure.

Pure — a Swedish name.

The name in its native script.

Karin
Transliteration
Karin
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Karin stands.

Karin 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.

Karins before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Karin.

The number behind Karin.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Karin reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.