Katarzyna

Girls' name

Form of Katherine

Katarzyna has been given to 721 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 41 recorded.

Babies named Katarzyna, 2023

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katarzyna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katherine

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Katarzyna means

Katarzyna is a form of Katherine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Katarzyna is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˌka.ta.ˈʐɨ.na/ for Katarzyna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Katarzyna is used in Polish. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Katarzyna comes through Latin Catharina, Catherina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine and Catherine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Katarzyna is pronounced /ka.taˈʐɘ.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 721 girls were recorded with the name Katarzyna between 1980 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,082 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.

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How common is Katarzyna?

Katarzyna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 287,205 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Katarzyna 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 2023 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katarzyna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katarzynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katarzyna was born before 1996 — so the typical Katarzyna is around 29 today.

Median birth year: 1996; About 29 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 38.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 721; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (309).

Is Katarzyna 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: —; 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 (41)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,082; 1998

Spellings of Katarzyna

Katarzyna is not the most common spelling — Katarina is, with 80.8% against Katarzyna's 6.2%.

Katarina80.8%9,357
Katryna7.3%841
Katarzyna6.2%721
Katalyna5.7%666

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 Katarzyna is used

Across 1910–2025, Katarzyna was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 72,157 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Illinois1 in 33,333
2New York1 in 100,000
3New Jersey1 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. Katarzyna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katarzyna around the world

Where Katarzyna 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
1996–2021
#4,634
in 2021
Scotland
2008–2010
#802
in 2010
Northern Ireland
2012–2012
#383
in 2012
Ireland
2007–2017
#734
in 2017
France
1982–2015
#6,262
in 2015
Norway
1880–2003
#442
in 2003
Canada
1991–1999
#2,199
in 1999
South Australia
1958–2012
#871
in 2012

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 Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Katarzyna 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: #3,082; 1998
Peak year: 1998; 41 that year
First recorded: 1980
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 721
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Katarzyna

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

Sibling names for Katarzyna

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

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