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Katerina

#1,431 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Katherine

Katerina has been given to 8,021 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #1,431 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 259 recorded.

Babies named Katerina, 2025

1 in 22,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katerina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katerina means

Katerina is a form of Katherine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Katerina is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Katerina is pronounced /ˌkætəˈɹiːnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,021 girls were recorded with the name Katerina between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 259 in 1998; its best national rank was #806 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,204 in 2020 to #1,431 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,160 in 2015 to #1,431 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 Katerina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,000
151 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,431
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,219 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katerina 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 15,219 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katerina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katerinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katerina was born before 2003 — so the typical Katerina is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,021
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Choose a decade

1990s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (2,032).

Is Katerina 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
+13
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−227
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−271
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.3%
Peak was 1998 (259)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#806
1994

Spellings of Katerina

Katerina is not the most common spelling — Katherine is, with 70.7% against Katerina's 0.87%.

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 Katerina is used

Across 2016–2025, Katerina was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 8,985 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 4,762
  2. 2New York1 in 5,000
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 5,556
  4. 4Florida1 in 5,882
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 5,882
  6. 6Virginia1 in 5,882
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 6,250
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 7,143

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.

Katerina around the world

Where Katerina 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
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1986–2015
    #653
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2001–2013
    #894
    in 2013
  • France
    1982–2025
    #2,669
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2025–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    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 Katerina

People whose public names include Katerina, 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.

Katerina in other languages

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

KatyKetiRinaCarinKarenKarinKatiaKatieKatjaKatriKatyaCathieCatrinKareenKathieKatinaKatrinCathrynKatalinKathrynKatrinaKatrineCatalinaCatarina

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

Katerina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,431
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 227
Best rank ever
#806
1994
Peak year
1998
259 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,021
Count in 2025
151

Names similar to Katerina

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

KatalinaKatarinaKatharinaKatherinaKatinaKatrinaKathrinaKathalinaKataleyaKatherynKathrineKatherinKathlynKatelynnKathryneRosalinaKarolinaJosefinaKattieCatarinaSerafinaGeorginaAudrinaKathlene

Names with a curve like Katerina

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

IvanaAshaKayceeKeilaDevynDenissePriyaImanAdileneCarsonMireyaMicah

Sibling names for Katerina

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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