Catera
Catera was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 397 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Catera?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,865, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
113 babies in 1998, the peak
Catera peaked in 1998, when 113 girls were given it, #1,500 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #15,865 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,495 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,579 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,852 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,615 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,938 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,034 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,530 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,570 | 31.0 |
| 1998 | 113 | #1,500 | 64.0 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 83 | #1,802 | 47.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,670 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Catera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Catera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Catera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catera, and how old are they?
An estimated 391 Americans named Catera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 26 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 338 people named Catera (334 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 393 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,978 babies since 1880, Catera is the fourth most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 83 babies recorded by SSA was a Catera (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Catera
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 Catera and names like it
- Compare Catera and KateriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCatera peaked in 1998.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catera since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Catera.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Catera alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.