Katherina

#6,013 in 2025Girls' name

Latinate form of Katherine

Katherina has been given to 1,683 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #6,013 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Katherina, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katherina: meaning, origin, and history

Latinate form of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katherina means

Katherina is a latinate form of Katherine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,683 girls were recorded with the name Katherina between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,051 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,771 in 2020 to #6,013 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,345 in 2015 to #6,013 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.

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How common is Katherina?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 166,000; 20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 80,400; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,013; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 114,896 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Katherina 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katherina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katherinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katherina was born before 1985 — so the typical Katherina is around 40 today.

Median birth year: 1985; About 40 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 24.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,482; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (309).

Is Katherina 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: +2,172; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +758; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +332; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 43.5%; Peak was 1991 (46)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,051; 1892

Spellings of Katherina

Katherina is not the most common spelling — Catherine is, with 43.6% against Katherina's 0.11%.

Catherine43.6%667,789
Katherine42.5%650,926
Katrina6.6%101,493
Katharine2.7%41,230
Kathrine1.0%15,775
Katheryn0.99%15,220
Katarina0.61%9,357
Katerina0.52%8,021

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 Katherina is used

Across 1910–2025, Katherina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 301,585 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 100,000
2New Jersey1 in —
3New York1 in —
4Texas1 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. Katherina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katherina around the world

Where Katherina 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
2001–2022
#5,670
in 2022
Ireland
1966–1996
#471
in 1996
France
1991–2025
#4,372
in 2025
Canada
1991–2018
#3,384
in 2018
South Australia
1965–2001
#711
in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Katherina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,013
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 758
Best rank ever: #1,051; 1892
Peak year: 1991; 46 that year
First recorded: 1889
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,683
Count in 2025: 20

Names similar to Katherina

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

Sibling names for Katherina

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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