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Catriona

Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Catherine

Catriona has been given to 683 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 32 recorded.

Babies named Catriona, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Catriona: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Catherine

Scottish Gaelic

What Catriona means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Catriona is used in English. Its origins include Scottish Gaelic.

Catriona comes through Scottish Gaelic Caitrìona.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Catherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 683 girls were recorded with the name Catriona between 1965 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,662 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Catriona?

Catriona 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 Catriona 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 Catriona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Catrionas were born

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

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
683
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2000s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (207).

Is Catriona 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (32)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,662
1998

Spellings of Catriona

Catriona is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 69.8% against Catriona's 0.47%.

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 Catriona is used

Across 1910–2025, Catriona was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,203,303 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Catriona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Catriona around the world

Where Catriona 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2006
    #332
    in 2006
  • Ireland
    1964–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1973–1973
    #2,148
    in 1973
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,029
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Catriona 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
#3,662
1998
Peak year
1998
32 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
683
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Catriona

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

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Sibling names for Catriona

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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