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Kateryna

#9,770 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Katherine

Kateryna has been given to 169 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #9,770 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Kateryna, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kateryna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katherine

Ukrainian

What Kateryna means

Kateryna is a form of Katherine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kateryna is used in English. Its origins include Ukrainian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine and Катери́на.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Kateryna is pronounced /ˌkætəˈɹɪnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 169 girls were recorded with the name Kateryna between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,412 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,297 in 2020 to #9,770 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,371 in 2015 to #9,770 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 Kateryna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,770
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kateryna 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kateryna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katerynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kateryna was born before 2017 — so the typical Kateryna is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
169
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Choose a decade

2010s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Kateryna 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
−2,358
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,527
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,601
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2024 (15)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,412
2024

Spellings of Kateryna

Kateryna is not the most common spelling — Kathryn is, with 58.5% against Kateryna's 0.02%.

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 Kateryna is used

Across 1910–2025, Kateryna was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Kateryna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kateryna around the world

Where Kateryna 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
    2005–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–1960
    #432
    in 1960

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kateryna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,770
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,527
Best rank ever
#7,412
2024
Peak year
2024
15 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
169
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Kateryna

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

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Sibling names for Kateryna

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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