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Katalina

#430 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Catalina

Katalina has been given to 8,727 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #430 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 720 recorded.

Babies named Katalina, 2025

1 in 4,600

Katalina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katalina: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Catalina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katalina means

Katalina is a variant of Catalina.

Origin, language, and formation

Katalina is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Catalina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,727 girls were recorded with the name Katalina between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 720 in 2025; its best national rank was #430 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #557 in 2020 to #430 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #788 in 2015 to #430 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 Katalina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,600
720 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,230
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#430
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,193 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katalina 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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,193 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katalina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katalinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katalina was born before 2019 — so the typical Katalina is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,727
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (3,857).

Is Katalina 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
+9
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+127
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+358
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.01×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (720)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#430
2025

Spellings of Katalina

Katalina is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 33.7% against Katalina's 2.9%.

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 Katalina is used

Across 2016–2025, Katalina was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 840 girls, against 1 in 2,442 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in 33,333).

3119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 840
  2. 2Texas1 in 1,099
  3. 3Nevada1 in 1,515
  4. 4California1 in 1,754
  5. 5Arizona1 in 1,852
  6. 6Florida1 in 1,887
  7. 7Kansas1 in 1,887
  8. 8Illinois1 in 2,273

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.

Geographically, Katalina is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 79% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Katalina around the world

Where Katalina 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
    1999–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1980–2025
    #1,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Katalina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Katalina. Linked forms have their own page here.

Catalina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Katalina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#430
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 127
Best rank ever
#430
2025
Peak year
2025
720 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,727
Count in 2025
720

Names similar to Katalina

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

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Names with a curve like Katalina

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

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Sibling names for Katalina

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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