Catena
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Catena has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1972, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Catena, 1974
1 in 608,000
Catena 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Catena?
Catena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1974
- 1 in 608,000
- 5 of 3,039,803 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 294,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1974
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,407 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Catena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1974 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,407 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Catenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Catena was born before 1972 — so the typical Catena is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Catena 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
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- 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 1972 (15)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.1% average annual change
Spellings of Catena
Catena is not the most common spelling — Athena is, with 27.8% against Catena'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.
Where Catena is used
Across 1910–2025, Catena was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 343,327 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
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. Catena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Catena around the world
Where Catena 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.
- France1965–1970#2,220in 1970
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Catena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Catena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Catena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.