Cataleya
Cataleya was given to 1,314 girls in 2025, #238 among girls’ names; 11,955 Americans have been recorded with it since 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,900 Americans named Cataleya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cataleya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cataleya mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Cataleya is “a female given name”
Modern coinage form the flower Cattleya, popularized by a character in a 2011 film.
/kataˈleʝa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cataleya?
#238 among girls’ names, 2025
Cataleya rose from #437 in 2015 to #238 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.41 to 0.82 per 1,000.
1,315 babies in 2024, the peak
Cataleya peaked in 2024, when 1,315 girls were given it, #236 among girls’ names. The 1,314 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,314 | #238 | 0.82 |
| 2024 | 1,315 | #236 | 0.81 |
| 2023 | 1,064 | #292 | 0.66 |
| 2022 | 947 | #341 | 0.58 |
| 2021 | 1,074 | #298 | 0.65 |
| 2020 | 806 | #387 | 0.50 |
| 2019 | 759 | #412 | 0.45 |
| 2018 | 652 | #483 | 0.38 |
| 2017 | 643 | #485 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 607 | #512 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 724 | #437 | 0.41 |
| 2014 | 695 | #460 | 0.39 |
| 2013 | 687 | #448 | 0.39 |
| 2012 | 639 | #480 | 0.36 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,828 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cataleya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cataleya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cataleya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cataleya, and how old are they?
11,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,955 Americans ever recorded as Cataleya. The median Cataleya alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 663 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Where are babies named Cataleya born?
The states with the most babies named Cataleya are Texas, California and Florida, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 311 | #83 | 1.8× |
| California | 280 | #105 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 79 | #240 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 62 | #97 | 1.5× |
| New York | 45 | #380 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 44 | #232 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 37 | #270 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 33 | #335 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 28 | #228 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #405 | 0.7× |
Where Cataleya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cataleya is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 2011 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cataleya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,707 babies since 1880, Cataleya is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,314 of their 2,448 babies (54%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cataleya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cataleya and names like it
- Compare Cataleya and KataleyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCataleya peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cataleya since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Cataleya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Cataleya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cataleya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.