Karin (first name)
Karin is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Karin is a Swedish form of Katharina .
Variants: Carin , Karina , Karine , Karen
distribution
The name Karin is (after Ursula ) the second most common first name for girls in Germany since 1890. Before 1915, however, it was hardly in use. From the mid-twenties it became more and more popular. From the mid-thirties to the end of the fifties it was one of the ten most frequently given first names, and after 1940 it was even the most common one a few times. From the end of the sixties, its distribution sank sharply, since the beginning of the nineties hardly any girls have been called Karin.
name day
The most important name days are:
- March 24th St. Catherine of Sweden
- April 29th St. Catherine of Siena
- September 15th St. Catherine of Genoa
- November 25th, St. Catherine of Alexandria
- December 31st, St. Catherine Labouré
See also Saint Catherine
Name bearers
- Karin Alvtegen (* 1965), Swedish writer
- Karin Anselm (* 1940), German film and theater actress
- Karin Baal (* 1940), German theater, film and television actress
- Karin Balzer (1938–2019), German athlete
- Karin Beier (* 1965), German theater director
- Karin Boven (* 1963), Dutch cultural anthropologist and diplomat
- Karin Boyd (* 1953), German actress and theater director
- Karin Boye (1900–1941), Swedish writer and poet
- Karin Brieden (* 1958), German lawyer and media manager
- Karin Büttner-Janz (* 1952), German gymnast
- Karin Dor (1938-2017), German actress
- Karin Eickelbaum (1937–2004), German film and theater actress
- Karin Enke (* 1961), German speed skater
- Karin Fossum (* 1954), Norwegian writer
- Karin Gregorek (* 1941), German actress
- Karin Hardt (1910–1992), German actress
- Karin Kock (1891–1976), Swedish economist and politician
- Karin Lenzke (* 1936), German high jumper
- Karin Maag (* 1962), German politician (CDU)
- Karin Mylius (1934–1986), chairwoman of the Jewish community in Halle (Saale)
- Karin Oehler (1950–2020), German jazz singer
- Karin Rabe , Swedish orienteer
- Karin Reschke (* 1940), German writer
- Karin Schmalfeld (* 1976), German orienteer
- Karin Stoiber (* 1943), bearer of the Bavarian Order of Merit
- Karin Thaler (* 1965), German actress
- Karin Tietze-Ludwig (* 1941), German journalist and television announcer
- Karin Viard (* 1966), French actress
- Karyn von Ostholt-Haas (* 1938), German actress