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Katia

#2,042 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Katya

Katia has been given to 6,339 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #2,042 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 272 recorded.

Babies named Katia, 2025

1 in 35,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katya

Russian

What Katia means

Katia is a form of Katya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Katia is used in English and French. Its origins include Russian.

Katia is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Katia is pronounced /ka.tja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,339 girls were recorded with the name Katia between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 272 in 1996; its best national rank was #772 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,774 in 2020 to #2,042 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,876 in 2015 to #2,042 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 Katia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,600
93 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,042
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,710 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,710 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katia was born before 2002 — so the typical Katia is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,339
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (1,975).

Is Katia 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
−180
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−268
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−166
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.2%
Peak was 1996 (272)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#772
1996

Spellings of Katia

Katia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 19.0% against Katia's 0.21%.

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 Katia is used

Across 2016–2025, Katia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 13,356 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 7,143
  2. 2California1 in 8,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 14,286
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5New York1 in 33,333
  6. 6Arizona1 in 50,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 50,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 50,000

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.

Katia around the world

Where Katia 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1939–2025
    #2,010
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Katia

People whose public names include Katia, 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.

Katia in other languages

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

KateKatyKetiRinaCarinCathyCatiaKarenKarinKathyKatieKatjaKatriKatyaCathiaCathieCatrinKareenKathieKatijaKatinaKatrinCathrynKatalin

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

Katia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,042
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 268
Best rank ever
#772
1996
Peak year
1996
272 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,339
Count in 2025
93

Names similar to Katia

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

KatyaKattieKateriKathlynKathiKatlynKattyKatjaKatyKatanaKatlinKathiaKataraKateyKatiKaterinaPortiaKataleyaKatalinaKatinaKatarinaKathyaKattiaKatherin

Names with a curve like Katia

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

UniqueKeeleyAnisaImanYasmeenAleaKeilaNiyaPriyaShaeDashaDenisse

Sibling names for Katia

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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