Catalin
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Catalin has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2003. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Catalin, 2022
1 in 677,000
Catalin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Catalin?
Catalin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Catalin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catalin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Catalins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Catalin was born before 2003 — so the typical Catalin is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Catalin 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2003 (5)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Catalin
Catalin is not the most common spelling — Natalie is, with 57.4% against Catalin's <0.01%.
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.
Catalin around the world
Where Catalin 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.
- England & Wales2012–2023#4,992in 2023
- Ireland2001–2003#500in 2003
- France2005–2023#3,943in 2023
- Canada1994–1994#1,715in 1994
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Catalin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Catalin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Catalin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.