Yekaterina

Girls' name

Form of Katherine

Yekaterina has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2005, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Yekaterina, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yekaterina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yekaterina means

Yekaterina is a form of Katherine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yekaterina is used in Russian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jɪ.kə.tʲɪ.ˈrʲi.nə/ and /ɪ.kə.tʲɪ.ˈrʲi.nə/ for Yekaterina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yekaterina → Katherine → 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 Katherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 90 girls were recorded with the name Yekaterina between 1998 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2005; its best national rank was #11,801 in 2005.

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 Yekaterina?

Yekaterina 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 564,000; 6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 273,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,139 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yekaterina 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yekaterina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yekaterinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yekaterina was born before 2005 — so the typical Yekaterina is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 90; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Yekaterina 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 2005 (9)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,801; 2005

Spellings of Yekaterina

Yekaterina is not the most common spelling — Katerina is, with 88.0% against Yekaterina's 0.99%.

Katerina88.0%8,021
Ekaterina11.0%1,003
Yekaterina0.99%90

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.

Yekaterina around the world

Where Yekaterina 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.

South Australia
2001–2001
#711
in 2001

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yekaterina 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: #11,801; 2005
Peak year: 2005; 9 that year
First recorded: 1998
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 90
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yekaterina

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

Sibling names for Yekaterina

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

Jaci Pilar Anisa Jamya Anjali Anneliese Annalisa Abigayle

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Kadin Lavon Tye

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