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Katya

#3,613 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Yekaterina

Katya has been given to 3,176 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,613 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 146 recorded.

Babies named Katya, 2025

1 in 78,900

Katya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katya: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Yekaterina

Russian and Ukrainian

What Katya means

Katya is a diminutive of Yekaterina.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Russian and Ukrainian Ка́тя (Kátja), diminutive of Екатери́на (Jekaterína), Катери́на (Katerýna).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Katya (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Katya is used in English. Its origins include Russian and Ukrainian.

Katya comes through ru,uk Ка́тя.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yekaterina, Kate, Ка́тя and Екатери́на.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,176 girls were recorded with the name Katya between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 146 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,312 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,311 in 2020 to #3,613 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,367 in 2015 to #3,613 in 2025.

How common is Katya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 38,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,613
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katya 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katya was born before 2003 — so the typical Katya is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,176
People you could plausibly meet
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2000s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (1,086).

Is Katya 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
−904
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−302
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−246
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.8%
Peak was 2001 (146)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,312
2000

Spellings of Katya

Katya is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 16.7% against Katya's 0.15%.

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 Katya is used

Across 1910–2025, Katya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 65,472 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

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. Katya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katya around the world

Where Katya 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2007
    #744
    in 2007
  • France
    1959–2025
    #5,410
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Katya

People whose public names include Katya, 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.

Katya in other languages

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

KatyCarinCatyaKarenKarinKatiaKatieKatjaKatriCathieCatrinKareenKathieKatijaKatrinCathrynKatalinKatrinaKatrineCatalinaCatarinaCaterinaCathrineKatarina

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

Katya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,613
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 302
Best rank ever
#1,312
2000
Peak year
2001
146 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,176
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Katya

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

KatiaKateriKattyKatjaKattieKatanaKathiaKataraKateyKathlynKathyaNityaKatheKatherinKatiKathiKatlynKatlinKatianaKaterinKatyKataleyaKatheyBatya

Names with a curve like Katya

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

JennahDivyaRayvenCallistaDeisyJanaiTylaAyshaJamiaBryceMasonNiya

Sibling names for Katya

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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