NamelingSwipe names

Kerina

Gender
Girl
Say it
kuh-REE-nuh
Origin
Modern

Kerina is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Kerina come from?

Modern: modern coinage, perhaps a variant of Karina

Is Kerina a girl's or a boy's name?

Kerina is a girls' name.

How popular is Kerina in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1992, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1964.

Half of all the girls named Kerina in the US since 1880 were born between 1986 and 2000, the years shaded on the chart below.

1964Busiest: 13 in 19922016
Kerina in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20165#16,210
20150–
20148#11,925
20135#16,542
20125#16,863
20110–
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20066#15,147
20056#14,495
20040–
20036#13,837
20027#12,181
20016#13,514
200010#9,156
199910#8,798
19987#11,132
19978#9,797
19967#10,562
19957#10,509
19946#11,771
19937#10,581
199213#6,645
19916#11,501
19907#10,187
19895#12,356
19888#8,386
19879#7,348
19866#9,540
19850–
19840–
19836#9,013
19828#7,467
19810–
19800–
19798#7,311
19785#9,748
19770–
19765#9,282
19750–
19740–
19730–
19726#7,290
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19655#6,538
19646#6,008

Names like Kerina

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Kerina

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kerina: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kerina, updated 20 October 2026.