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Katarina

#1,788 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly Hecate or each of the two, through Αἰκατερίνη

Katarina has been given to 9,357 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #1,788 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 523 recorded.

Babies named Katarina, 2025

1 in 29,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katarina: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly Hecate or each of the two, through Αἰκατερίνη

Ancient Greek

What Katarina means

Katarina belongs to the name family reached through Katarina → Αἰκατερίνη. Its meaning is “Hecate or each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Katarina is used in Faroese, German, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian and Swedish. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katharina, Catherine and Αἰκατερίνη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Katarina is pronounced [kataˈʁiːna].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,357 girls were recorded with the name Katarina between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 523 in 1994; its best national rank was #477 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,404 in 2020 to #1,788 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,359 in 2015 to #1,788 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 Katarina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,300
113 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,788
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,337 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katarina 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,337 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katarina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katarinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katarina was born before 2000 — so the typical Katarina is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,357
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (3,553).

Is Katarina 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
−40
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−384
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−429
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.6%
Peak was 1994 (523)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#477
1994

Spellings of Katarina

Katarina is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 30.3% against Katarina's 2.8%.

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 Katarina is used

Across 2016–2025, Katarina was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 12,752 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 50,000).

212 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 8,333
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 8,333
  3. 3California1 in 10,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 10,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 11,111
  6. 6Illinois1 in 12,500
  7. 7New York1 in 12,500
  8. 8Ohio1 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.

Katarina around the world

Where Katarina 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1996–1996
    #611
    in 1996
  • Ireland
    2012–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1965–2025
    #2,673
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #364
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Katarina

People whose public names include Katarina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Katarina in other languages

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

KateKatyCarinCathyKarenKarinKathyKatiaKatieKatjaKatriKatyaCathieCatrinKareenKathieKatrinCathrynKatalinKatrinaKatrineCatalinaCatarinaCaterina

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

Katarina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,788
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 384
Best rank ever
#477
1994
Peak year
1994
523 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,357
Count in 2025
113

Names similar to Katarina

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

KatalinaKaterinaKatharinaKatherinaKatinaKatrinaKathrinaKathalinaKatherynKathrineKataleyaKatherinKatelynnKathlynJosefinaKathryneRosalinaGeorginaKarolinaKattieKatelinAudrinaCatrinaCatarina

Names with a curve like Katarina

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

EstefaniaYasmeenAlexMarielaKarliTiannaMontanaCarliMoriahEssenceKiannaLucero

Sibling names for Katarina

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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