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Catia

Girls' name

Diminutive of Caterina

Catia has been given to 369 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1998, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Catia, 2024

1 in 478,000

Catia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Catia: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Caterina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Catia means

Catia is a diminutive of Caterina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Catia is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caterina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 369 girls were recorded with the name Catia between 1975 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1998; its best national rank was #6,112 in 1998.

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.

How common is Catia?

Catia 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 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Catia 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Catias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Catia was born before 2002 — so the typical Catia is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
369
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Catia 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (16)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,112
1998

Spellings of Catia

Catia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 26.8% against Catia's 0.02%.

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 Catia is used

Across 1910–2025, Catia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,046,820 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Catia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Catia around the world

Where Catia 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
    1997–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    1953–2020
    #6,822
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1960–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Catia 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
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Best rank ever
#6,112
1998
Peak year
1998
16 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
369
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Catia

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

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Sibling names for Catia

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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