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Karin
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karin karın
English
Etymology
From en sv Karin or en da Karin, a medieval form of sv Katarina, ultimately from en grc Αἰκατερῑ́νη. See also en Karen.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkærɪn/ /kəˈɹɪn/, or like en Karen
en ɪn 2
Proper noun
en female Danish < grc:Αἰκατερῑ́νη Karen.
en Michael Williams Who is Karin Immergut, the Trump-appointed judge who ruled against his push to deploy troops in Oregon? w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/immergut-judge-troops-oregon 2025-10-06 US District Judge Karin Immergut on Saturday issued a ruling that temporarily prevented the Trump administration from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to protect an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has been the focus of recent protests in Portland. https://web.archive.org/web/20260312123321/https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/immergut-judge-troops-oregon 12 March 2026
Translations
female given name from a Swedish form of Catherine
Danish: da Karin
Estonian: et Karin
Faroese: fo Karin
Finnish: fi Kaarina
French: fr Karine
German: de Karin
Hebrew: he קרין, he קארין karín
Norwegian: no Karin
Swedish: sv Karin
See also
en Carina; en Corinne
en Karin Tak
Anagrams
en aiknr -kinra Kiran nakir
en female given names from Swedish
Danish
Etymology
Medieval variant of da Katrine, today often considered Swedish. Cognate with da Karen.
Proper noun
da proper noun
da female
References
Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 20 500 females with the given name Karin have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
Estonian
Proper noun
et proper noun
et female, from a Scandinavian variant of et Katariina Catherine
See also
et Kaarin
Faroese
Pronunciation
fo /ˈkʰɛaːɹɪn/
fo ɛaːɹɪn
Proper noun
fo proper noun f
fo female
Usage notes
f Karinarson Karinardóttir
Declension
Karin Karina Karini Karinar
French
Proper noun
f
fr female, less common form of fr Karine
German
Etymology
de :bor sv:Karin
de sv Karin.
Pronunciation
de /ˈkaːʁɪn/ /ˈkaːʁiːn/
de De-Karin.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun f genitive Karins or with an article Karin
de female in Germany from the 1930s to the 1960s
Japanese
Romanization
かりん
Norwegian
Etymology
Medieval variant of no Katrine, today often considered Swedish.
Proper noun
no female
Related terms
no Kari
References
Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, 82-521-4483-7
Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 13 533 females with the given name Karin living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.
Swedish
Alternative forms
sv Carin
Etymology
A contraction of sv Katarina. First recorded in Sweden in 1460.
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Karin.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female
Derived terms
sv Karina elaboration
Descendants
1 da Karin
1 nl Karin
1 en Karin
1 et Karin
1 fo Karin
1 fi Kaarina
1 fr Karine Carine
1 de Karin
1 no Karin
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 162 881 females with the given name Karin living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on May 19th, 2011.