Is Karina a surname?

Question:Hello,
I know Karina is a first name for women but is it also a registered surname?? I'm trying to find some sort of confirmation. Can anyone help me?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hello,
I know Karina is a first name for women but is it also a registered surname?? I'm trying to find some sort of confirmation. Can anyone help me?

It sure is. If you go to the UP in Michigan, it's not uncommon among the Finnish population around Hancock. It's also in the Croatian and Polish communities around Detroit and Toledo. I'm sure it probably comes from several ethnic backgrounds, because it's both Slavic and Scandinavian. It wouldn't be uncommon for a unique surname from one country to also be an unrelated surname in another country. The trick for someone researching it is to figure out where their roots were and to follow the paper trail wherever it leads you.

As far as i know 'karina' is a first name ....

There is an actress named Anna Karina who took that as her professional surname in about 1958, but she was born Hanna Karin Blarke Bayer. Roots.web has a page of geneology for the Karina family, so it would appear that it is a legitimate surname.

There are 10 people, over 18, in the UK with the surname Karina

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-b...
has 80 million people who died in the USA with Social Security Numbers. It has 7 with surname Karina.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...
has millions of records from all over the world. They have 21 entries for Karina as a surname.

It IS rare, but it seems to be one.