Entry № 5239 · Sanskrit origin

Kareena Kareena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-REE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Pure (Kareena Kapoor Khan, Bollywood Princess)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Sanskrit)

A name that means "pure (kareena kapoor khan, bollywood princess)".

Kareena is a Sanskrit-derived variant of Karina — from karuṇa (compassion) or alternately the Spanish-Italian Carina ("beloved"). Married actor Saif Ali Khan in 2012. Author of Pregnancy Bible (2021).

Pure (Kareena Kapoor Khan, Bollywood Princess) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

करीना
Transliteration
Karīnā
Pronunciation
/ kəˈriː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kareena stands.

Kareena 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.

Kareenas before her.

Real people
Kareena Kapoor Khan
Indian actress.
born 1980
In fiction
Geet
Jab We Met.
2007

Names connected to Kareena.

The number behind Kareena.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kareena reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.