Catalena
#12,164 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Catalena has been given to 166 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #12,164 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Catalena, 2025
1 in 474,000
Catalena over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Catalena?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,164
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Catalena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catalena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Catalenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Catalena was born before 2015 — so the typical Catalena is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 166
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (80).
Is Catalena rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,729
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −874
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,075
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2015 (14)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Spellings of Catalena
Catalena is not the most common spelling — Catalina is, with 45.7% against Catalena's 0.23%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Catalena around the world
Where Catalena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2022–2022#6,995in 2022
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Catalena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Catalena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Catalena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.