Catrina
Catrina was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,462 among girls’ names; 10,150 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,670 Americans named Catrina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 36 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catrina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Catrina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Catrina is “a female given name, variant of Catherine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Catrina?
#8,462 among girls’ names, 2025
Catrina rose from #9,605 in 2015 to #8,462 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 7.5 per million.
454 babies in 1980, the peak
Catrina peaked in 1980, when 454 girls were given it, #469 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,462 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,683 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,581 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,171 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,695 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,698 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,574 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,713 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,161 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,325 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,605 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,285 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,143 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,218 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,385 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,812 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,709 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,672 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,866 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,060 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,580 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,872 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,861 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,935 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,662 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,650 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 123 | #1,422 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 133 | #1,324 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,717 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,230 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 138 | #1,232 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 134 | #1,267 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 154 | #1,147 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 192 | #991 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 191 | #979 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 212 | #903 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 250 | #773 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 246 | #759 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 220 | #797 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 283 | #651 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 327 | #593 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 303 | #593 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 271 | #635 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 396 | #509 | 0.23 |
| 1981 | 423 | #487 | 0.25 |
| 1980 | 454 | #469 | 0.27 |
| 1979 | 428 | #470 | 0.27 |
| 1978 | 308 | #564 | 0.20 |
| 1977 | 281 | #603 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 315 | #547 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 350 | #512 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 329 | #515 | 0.22 |
| 1973 | 407 | #452 | 0.28 |
| 1972 | 380 | #473 | 0.25 |
| 1971 | 313 | #566 | 0.19 |
| 1970 | 277 | #618 | 0.16 |
| 1969 | 204 | #697 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 158 | #802 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 119 | #936 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 110 | #973 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 97 | #1,063 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,127 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,580 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,269 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,738 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,540 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,547 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,922 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,808 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Catrina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Catrina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Catrina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catrina, and how old are they?
9,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 10,150 Americans ever recorded as Catrina. The median Catrina alive today is 45 years old; half are between 36 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 8,636 people named Catrina (8,625 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 331 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,770 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 149 |
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 Catrina born?
The states with the most babies named Catrina are California, Texas and Illinois, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,198 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 748 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 569 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 469 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 423 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 366 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 315 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 285 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 276 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 234 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Catrina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Catrina is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1950 it was given 1.8 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 Catrina 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 138,566 babies since 1880, Catrina is the second most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 491 babies (2.4%), the sixth 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 Catrina
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 Catrina and names like it
- Compare Catrina and KatrinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCatrina peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catrina since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Catrina.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Catrina alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.