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Catrina

#8,462 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Catherine

Catrina has been given to 10,150 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #8,462 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 454 recorded.

Babies named Catrina, 2025

1 in 276,000

Catrina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Catrina: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Catherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Catrina means

Catrina belongs to the name family reached through Catrina → Catherine. Its meaning is “each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Catrina is used in English and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Catherine and Catalina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Catrina is pronounced /kaˈtɾina/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,150 girls were recorded with the name Catrina between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 454 in 1980; its best national rank was #452 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,698 in 2020 to #8,462 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,605 in 2015 to #8,462 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 Catrina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,462
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Catrina 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catrina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Catrinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Catrina was born before 1981 — so the typical Catrina is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
10,150
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (3,388).

Is Catrina 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
+1,221
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,236
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,143
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.6%
Peak was 1980 (454)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#452
1973

Spellings of Catrina

Catrina is not the most common spelling — Sabrina is, with 25.2% against Catrina's 1.8%.

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 Catrina is used

Across 1910–2025, Catrina was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 20,476 across all states with data. It was least common in Nebraska (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 9,091
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 12,500
  3. 3Alabama1 in 14,286
  4. 4California1 in 14,286
  5. 5Florida1 in 14,286
  6. 6Illinois1 in 14,286
  7. 7Michigan1 in 14,286
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 14,286

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

Catrina around the world

Where Catrina 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
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    1974–2008
    #572
    in 2008
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2001
    #343
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    1965–1982
    #425
    in 1982
  • France
    1971–1982
    #3,287
    in 1982
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1947–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Catrina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,462
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,236
Best rank ever
#452
1973
Peak year
1980
454 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,150
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Catrina

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

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Names with a curve like Catrina

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

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Sibling names for Catrina

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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