Catherina
Catherina was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 933 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catherina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Catherina?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,740, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1962, the peak
Catherina peaked in 1962, when 25 girls were given it, #2,417 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,740 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,653 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,406 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,467 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,591 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,703 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,364 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,767 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,288 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,348 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,218 | 4.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,332 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,496 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,279 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,589 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,507 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,503 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,261 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,656 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,903 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,820 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,454 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,255 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,129 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,051 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,157 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,390 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,029 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,520 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,883 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,507 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,339 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,728 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,724 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,886 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,874 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,730 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,005 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,969 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,406 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,256 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,566 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,699 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,284 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,881 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,177 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,566 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,332 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,604 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,637 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,072 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,075 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,408 | 14.8 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,687 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,261 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,878 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,417 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,764 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,377 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,456 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,568 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,724 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,731 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,235 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,014 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,119 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,844 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,921 | 3.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,335 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,736 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,785 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,502 | 4.1 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,823 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,921 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,089 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,064 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,462 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,533 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,329 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,278 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,177 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,518 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,935 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,940 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,411 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,526 | 12.0 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,719 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,595 | 23.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Catherina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Catherina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Catherina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catherina, and how old are they?
An estimated 763 Americans named Catherina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 31 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,169 people named Catherina (1,169 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 758 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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.
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 1,348,595 babies since 1880, Catherina is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,680 babies recorded by SSA was a Catherina (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.
More about Catherina and names like it
- Compare Catherina and CatherineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCatherina peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catherina since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Catherina.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Catherina alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.