Girls' name · since 2016
Catalayah
Catalayah has 22 recorded births since 2016 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2016 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #44,593 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,525 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Catalayah is the #14525 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 22 recorded since 2016.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Catalayah has been recorded 22 times among girls since 2016, currently ranked #14525 nationally and more common than 16% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.
- #44,593 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,525 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 22 born since 2016
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Catalayah ranks #44,593 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,525 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 22 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.
- #44,593 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,525 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Catalayah's 22 recorded births place it above 37.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Catalayah compares
22 8th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Catalayah's all-time total is 94% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Catalayah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 22 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Catalayah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Catalayah's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2020, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2016 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Catalayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025
- Peak year (2016)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Catalayah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (16 births, 73% of the file).
2020s was Catalayah's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 73% of all-time use.
Catalayah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 16 births (73% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Catalayah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2016)
Similar record span (~9 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2016–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Catalayah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.