Kaarina

From Swedish Karin. A traditional variant of Finnish Katariina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːrinɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑːrinɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Kaa‧ri‧na

Kaarina

1. a female given name

   Kaarina Maununtytär Karin Månsdotter

   • 1918, Anni Swan, Kaarinan kesäloma, WSOY, published 1956, page 111:

     Ei, Kaarina kulta, heitä rillit nurkkaan, luovu arvokkaasta opettajannaamastasi ja muutu jälleen vallattomaksi Kaisuksi.

     No, Kaarina, darling, toss those glasses in the corner, leave your dignified teacher face behind and become an unruly Kaisu once again.

   • 1961, Väinö Linna, Täällä Pohjantähden alla 3, WSOY, published 1980, →ISBN, page 104:

     Nykyään hän hyräili usein erästä balladia, jossa kerrottiin kauniin Kuussalon Kaarinan kovasta kohtalosta. Ja vähitellen hän pääsi varmuuteen siitä, että panisi lapsensa nimeksi Kaarina, jos se olisi tyttö. Tosin laulun Kaarina mestattiin ja pantiin kivikirkon seinään, mutta nimi oli hänestä niin kaunis, että hän siitä huolimatta valitsi sen.

     Nowadays she often hummed a certain ballad about the tough fate of the beautiful Kaarina of the Kuussalos, and slowly became convinced that she would name her child Kaarina, if it was a girl. Even though the song said that Kaarina was beheaded and buried inside the wall of a stone church, she thought the name was so beautiful that she would choose it.

2. A municipality in southwestern Finland, near Turku.

• (municipality): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kaarina" is Kaarinassa.

• Kaarina is the 218^th (tied with 1 other name) most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,639 female individuals (and as a middle name to 91,133 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Kanaria, anarkia