Catera — girls' name

What the Data Says About Catera

The Social Security Administration has registered 397 babies named Catera between 1996 and 2007, spanning 12 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Catera currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 113 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Catera performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 262 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Catera shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 36 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Catera in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Catera in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 397 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.