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Catina

Girls' name

Form of Cătălina

Catina has been given to 4,186 babies in the U.S. since 1949. 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 1,372 recorded.

Babies named Catina, 2011

1 in 732,000

Catina over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Catina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Cătălina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Catina means

Catina is a form of Cătălina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Catina is used in Romanian (Rare).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cătălina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,178 girls were recorded with the name Catina between 1949 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 1,372 in 1972; its best national rank was #202 in 1972.

In the United States, 8 boys were recorded with the name Catina between 1973 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1973; its best national rank was #3,753 in 1973.

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 Catina?

Catina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Catina 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Catinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Catina was born before 1973 — so the typical Catina is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
85.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,172
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 85.9% of all recorded uses (3,587).

Is Catina 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 1972 (1,372)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#202
1972

Catina’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1972, 1,372 girls were named Catina — about #202 that year — roughly 4.6× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Catina

Catina is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 27.8% against Catina's 0.40%.

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 Catina is used

Across 1910–2025, Catina was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 43,759 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 7,143
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 7,692
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 14,286
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 20,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 20,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 20,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 25,000

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

Catina around the world

Where Catina 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.

  • France
    1926–1926
    #1,200
    in 1926
  • South Australia
    1958–1962
    #647
    in 1962

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Catina 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
#202
1972
Peak year
1972
1,372 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
4,178
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,753
1973
Peak year
1973
8 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Catina

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

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Names with a curve like Catina

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

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Sibling names for Catina

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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