Katrinka

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Katrinka has been given to 503 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1954, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Katrinka, 1992

1 in 768,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katrinka: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katrinka means

Katrinka is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Katrinka is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 503 girls were recorded with the name Katrinka between 1940 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1954; its best national rank was #2,208 in 1954.

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 Katrinka?

Katrinka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992: 1 in 768,000; 5 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only: 1 in 369,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 532,251 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Katrinka 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 1992 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 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katrinka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katrinkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katrinka was born before 1962 — so the typical Katrinka is around 63 today.

Median birth year: 1962; About 63 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 32.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 35.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 452; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (161).

Is Katrinka 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 1954 (24)
Years since peak: 71; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,208; 1954

Spellings of Katrinka

Katrinka is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 47.8% against Katrinka's 0.24%.

Katrina47.8%101,493
Karina28.9%61,464
Katina5.3%11,306
Catrina4.8%10,150
Katarina4.4%9,357
Katerina3.8%8,021
Latrina1.1%2,319
Patrina0.97%2,063

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.

Katrinka 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: #2,208; 1954
Peak year: 1954; 24 that year
First recorded: 1940
Last recorded: 1992
All-time count: 503
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Katrinka

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

Katalaya Katieann Katalyna Kattleya Kataleia Katalena Katriel Kataleah Kattaleya Kateryna Kathalina Katalia Kathrynn Katrinia Katurah Katelyne Kathlynn Kataleyah Katerin Katiana Katilynn Kateland Kathreen Katalea

Sibling names for Katrinka

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

Marita Jacalyn Luanne Romona Louann Madonna Merry Gayla

For a brother

Stanton Stanford Lindsey Jerrold Leigh Garth Sandy Dirk

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