Catherina

Girls' name

Variant of Katherine

Catherina has been given to 933 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 1962, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Catherina, 2024

1 in 669,000

Catherina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Catherina: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Catherina means

Catherina is a variant of Katherine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Catherina is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /kæθ.ə.ˈɹi.nə/ and /kæ.ˈθɹi.nə/ for Catherina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 933 girls were recorded with the name Catherina between 1900 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,595 in 1900.

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 Catherina?

Catherina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Catherina 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catherina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Catherinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Catherina was born before 1974 — so the typical Catherina is around 51 today.

Median birth year: 1974; About 51 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 14.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 809; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (184).

Is Catherina 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 1962 (25)
Years since peak: 63; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,595; 1900

Spellings of Catherina

Catherina is not the most common spelling — Catherine is, with 48.5% against Catherina's 0.07%.

Catherine48.5%667,789
Katherine47.2%650,926
Catharine0.94%12,994
Catrina0.74%10,150
Katerina0.58%8,021
Cathrine0.56%7,716
Catarina0.29%3,965
Katherin0.26%3,630

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 Catherina is used

Across 1910–2025, Catherina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 606,791 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New York1 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. Catherina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Catherina around the world

Where Catherina 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
1996–2015
#5,730
in 2015
Scotland
1974–1974
#508
in 1974
Ireland
1964–1996
#534
in 1996
France
1921–2019
#5,637
in 2019
Canada
1992–2007
#3,117
in 2007
South Australia
1957–1998
#710
in 1998

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.

Catherina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,595; 1900
Peak year: 1962; 25 that year
First recorded: 1900
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 933
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Catherina

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

Sibling names for Catherina

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

For a sister

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For a brother

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