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Caterina

#4,678 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Katherine

Caterina has been given to 3,017 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #4,678 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Caterina, 2025

1 in 114,000

Caterina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caterina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caterina means

Caterina is a form of Katherine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Caterina → Katherine → Catherine. The family’s proposed meaning is “each of the two”, recorded in English with the source elements hekáteros.

Origin, language, and formation

Caterina is used in Catalan and Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine and Catherine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Caterina is pronounced [kə.təˈɾi.nə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,017 girls were recorded with the name Caterina between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,608 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,940 in 2020 to #4,678 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,492 in 2015 to #4,678 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 Caterina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,678
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caterina 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caterina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caterinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caterina was born before 1995 — so the typical Caterina is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,865
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (570).

Is Caterina 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
−624
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−738
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,186
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.6%
Peak was 2014 (68)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,608
1968

Spellings of Caterina

Caterina is not the most common spelling — Catherine is, with 75.9% against Caterina's 0.34%.

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 Caterina is used

Across 1910–2025, Caterina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 74,825 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Caterina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caterina around the world

Where Caterina 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1980–2020
    #765
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    1967–1967
    #393
    in 1967
  • France
    1913–2024
    #4,543
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,138
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1947–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Caterina

People whose public names include Caterina, 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.

Caterina in other languages

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

KateKatyCarinCathyKarenKarinKathyKatiaKatieKatjaKatriKatyaCathieCatrinKareenKathieKatrinCathrynKatalinKathrynKatrinaKatrineCatalinaCatarina

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

Caterina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,678
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 738
Best rank ever
#1,608
1968
Peak year
2014
68 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,017
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Caterina

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

CatarinaCatrinaCatalinaCatharinaCatinaCatherinaCathalinaCattleyaAntoninaCataleyaCatalayaSerafinaCathrinaKarolinaFaustinaNicolinaCatherynAgustinaCatelinaCattaleyaRosalinaMarlainaSantinaEnedina

Names with a curve like Caterina

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

MyriamBronwynShayneZenaidaLanaeGiselaSilvanaJoieJoriDanyaKimberlynAnamaria

Sibling names for Caterina

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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