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Catarina

#1,897 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Catherine

Catarina has been given to 3,965 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #1,897 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Catarina, 2025

1 in 32,200

Catarina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Catarina: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Catherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Catarina means

Catarina is a English equivalent of Catherine.

Origin, language, and formation

Catarina is used in Galician, German, Occitan, Portuguese and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Catherine and Katharina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Galician, Catarina is pronounced /kataˈɾinɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,965 girls were recorded with the name Catarina between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,018 in 1901.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,104 in 2020 to #1,897 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,815 in 2015 to #1,897 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Catarina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,200
103 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,897
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Catarina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catarina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Catarinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Catarina was born before 1999 — so the typical Catarina is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,152
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Choose a decade

2000s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (689).

Is Catarina 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
±0
No change
Rank vs 5 years ago
+207
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+918
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.66×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.3%
Peak was 2023 (118)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,018
1901

Spellings of Catarina

Catarina is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 44.2% against Catarina's 1.7%.

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.

Where Catarina is used

Across 2016–2025, Catarina was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 19,765 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 6,250
  2. 2Alabama1 in 7,143
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 9,091
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 20,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 25,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Catarina around the world

Where Catarina 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1925–2025
    #2,491
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Catarina

People whose public names include Catarina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Catarina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Catarina. Linked forms have their own page here.

KateKatyCarinCathyKarenKarinKathyKatiaKatieKatjaKatriKatyaCathieCatrinKareenKathieKatrinCathrynKatalinKatrinaKatrineCatalinaCaterinaCathrine

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Catarina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,897
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 207
Best rank ever
#1,018
1901
Peak year
2023
118 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,965
Count in 2025
103

Names similar to Catarina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CaterinaCatrinaCatalinaCatinaCatharinaCatherinaCathalinaCattleyaCataleyaSerafinaKarolinaAntoninaRosalinaCatalayaCathrinaCathrineKaterinaDelfinaCathleenFaustinaSeraphinaNicolinaKatalinaCatheryn

Names with a curve like Catarina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Catarina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MahaliaRosyEllenaJosephinaArlynNaomieDevoraSereneAdoraLeanaOrianaKaroline

Sibling names for Catarina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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