Ekaterina

#5,969 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Katherine

Ekaterina has been given to 1,003 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #5,969 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Ekaterina, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ekaterina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katherine

Ancient Greek

What Ekaterina means

Ekaterina is a form of Katherine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Ekaterina is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Ekaterina comes through sh,ru Екатерина.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine and Catherine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ekaterina is pronounced /ɪˌkæ.təˈɹiː.nə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,003 girls were recorded with the name Ekaterina between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,346 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,137 in 2020 to #5,969 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,789 in 2015 to #5,969 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 Ekaterina?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 166,000; 20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 80,400; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #5,969; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 114,896 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ekaterina 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ekaterina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ekaterinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ekaterina was born before 2008 — so the typical Ekaterina is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 77.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,003; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (375).

Is Ekaterina 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: +738; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +168; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −2,180; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.50×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 46.5%; Peak was 2005 (43)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,346; 2000

Spellings of Ekaterina

Ekaterina is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 79.7% against Ekaterina's 0.79%.

Katrina79.7%101,493
Katarina7.4%9,357
Katerina6.3%8,021
Caterina2.4%3,017
Katherina1.3%1,683
Katerin0.80%1,023
Ekaterina0.79%1,003
Katerine0.72%922

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 Ekaterina is used

Across 1910–2025, Ekaterina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 220,883 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 100,000
2Florida1 in 100,000
3Massachusetts1 in —
4New York1 in —
5Washington1 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. Ekaterina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ekaterina around the world

Where Ekaterina 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
2005–2005
#687
in 2005
Ireland
2002–2021
#883
in 2021
France
1996–2024
#5,352
in 2024
Norway
1880–2003
#522
in 2003
Canada
1991–2024
#3,457
in 2024
South Australia
1956–2011
#840
in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ekaterina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #5,969
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 168
Best rank ever: #3,346; 2000
Peak year: 2005; 43 that year
First recorded: 1981
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,003
Count in 2025: 20

Names similar to Ekaterina

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

Sibling names for Ekaterina

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

Keven Zakary Donavon Shamar Kadin Nathen Kale Jamarcus

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