Caterina
Caterina was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,678 among girls’ names; 3,017 Americans have been recorded with it since 1904 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,760 Americans named Caterina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 16 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caterina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Caterina mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Caterina is “a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine”
/ka.teˈri.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Caterina?
#4,678 among girls’ names, 2025
Caterina fell from #3,492 in 2015 to #4,678 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 18.0 per million.
68 babies in 2014, the peak
Caterina peaked in 2014, when 68 girls were given it, #2,588 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,678 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,054 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,339 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,323 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,447 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,940 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,935 | 33.4 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,212 | 29.4 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,933 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,597 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,492 | 25.2 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,588 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,795 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,652 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,082 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,901 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,467 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,165 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,259 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,733 | 34.2 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,760 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,749 | 32.1 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,957 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,605 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,409 | 36.1 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,543 | 32.5 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,571 | 31.0 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,762 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,562 | 28.7 |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,399 | 30.8 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,455 | 29.6 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,206 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,535 | 27.1 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,319 | 30.4 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,308 | 17.6 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,631 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,030 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,399 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,532 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,903 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,871 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,157 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,077 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,256 | 26.0 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,933 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,703 | 20.5 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,801 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,394 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,166 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,883 | 32.8 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,026 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,001 | 28.6 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,069 | 26.7 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,026 | 25.6 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,773 | 30.1 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,955 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,108 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,608 | 31.1 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,926 | 22.4 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,829 | 23.0 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,743 | 23.8 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,783 | 22.7 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,790 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,315 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,849 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,530 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,769 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,964 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,966 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,518 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,811 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,844 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,919 | 3.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,332 | 2.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,620 | 6.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,822 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,920 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,715 | 6.6 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,461 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,712 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,081 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,098 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,934 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,061 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,719 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,859 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,485 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,916 | 17.1 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,576 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,681 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,238 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,796 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,998 | 17.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,930 | 18.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caterina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caterina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caterina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caterina, and how old are they?
2,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,017 Americans ever recorded as Caterina. The median Caterina alive today is 29 years old; half are between 16 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 4,259 people named Caterina (4,251 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,567 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 163 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 606 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 565 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 832 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 596 |
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. 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).
Where are babies named Caterina born?
The states with the most babies named Caterina are New York, California and Florida, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 637 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| California | 254 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 116 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 69 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 52 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Caterina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caterina is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.0 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 Caterina 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 137,846 babies since 1880, Caterina is the sixth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 491 babies (5.9%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Caterina
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 Caterina and names like it
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- The most given names of the 2010sCaterina peaked in 2014.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caterina since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Caterina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Caterina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caterina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.