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Katriona

Girls' name

Variant of Catriona

Katriona has been given to 93 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 1998, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Katriona, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katriona: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Catriona

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katriona means

Katriona is a variant of Catriona.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Katriona is used in Irish and Scottish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kə.ˈtɹi.nə/ for Katriona.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Katriona → Catriona → 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 Catriona.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 93 girls were recorded with the name Katriona between 1993 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1998; its best national rank was #8,263 in 1998.

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 Katriona?

Katriona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katriona 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katriona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katrionas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katriona was born before 1998 — so the typical Katriona is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
61.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
93
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 61.3% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Katriona 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (11)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,263
1998

Spellings of Katriona

Katriona is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 47.1% against Katriona's 0.04%.

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.

Katriona around the world

Where Katriona 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
    1996–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    1974–2007
    #744
    in 2007
  • Ireland
    1964–2000
    #465
    in 2000
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #684
    in 1987

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

Katriona 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
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Best rank ever
#8,263
1998
Peak year
1998
11 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
93
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Katriona

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

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Sibling names for Katriona

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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