Members of this gens rose to prominence during the final century of the Republic, attaining the consulship in 43 BC.
[1] The nomen Carrinas, occasionally written Carinas, is one of the more unusual forms appearing in Roman history.
Havercamp supposed it to be a cognomen of the Albia gens,[2] but the nomen Albius does not appear with it in any known inscriptions.
A few members of this gens are mentioned with the common praenomen Quintus, and from a filiation it appears that they may also have used Aulus.
The senatorial Carrinates of the late Republic seem to have belonged to the tribe Quirina, or, less likely, Collina.