Katla

Girls' name

Kettle; helmet

Katla has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2022. 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 2022, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Katla, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katla: meaning, origin, and history

Kettle; helmet

Old Norse

What Katla means

Katla means “kettle; helmet”, associated with ketill.

Origin, language, and formation

Katla is used in Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kjetil, Kjell and Ketill.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Nynorsk, Katla is pronounced /²katla/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Katla between 2022 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2022; its best national rank was #16,491 in 2022.

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 Katla?

Katla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Katla 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katla was born before 2022 — so the typical Katla is around 3 today.

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Katla 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 2022 (5)
Years since peak: 3; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #16,491; 2022

Spellings of Katla

Katla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 13.8% against Katla's <0.01%.

Kayla13.8%346,570
Kathy13.3%334,131
Paula11.2%280,856
Katie9.6%241,285
Carla6.0%150,390
Layla5.1%129,136
Kara4.1%101,743
Karla3.6%91,586

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.

Katla 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: #16,491; 2022
Peak year: 2022; 5 that year
First recorded: 2022
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Katla

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

Katin Katsue Kathay Kathyy Katrea Katyln Katija Katari Katri Katreen Kathran Katrisa Katlain Katonna Katelon Kataria Kateara Katsumi Katorah Katyna Katence Katima Katyann Kathena

Sibling names for Katla

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

Ezra Sapphire Scout Amayah Shoshana Nila Everlee Zariyah

For a brother

Loyal Avi Rayden Zeke Gian Rishi Tripp Apollo

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