Cattleya
Cattleya was given to 187 girls in 2025, #1,212 among girls’ names; 2,085 Americans have been recorded with it since 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Cattleya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Cattleya dropped 308 places in 2025, the #2 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cattleya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cattleya?
#1,212 among girls’ names, 2025
Cattleya rose from #1,624 in 2015 to #1,212 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.12 per 1,000.
293 babies in 2024, the peak
Cattleya peaked in 2024, when 293 girls were given it, #904 among girls’ names. The 187 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 187 | #1,212 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 293 | #904 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 224 | #1,097 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,765 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 136 | #1,544 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,650 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,755 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,802 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,565 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 121 | #1,732 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 132 | #1,624 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,695 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 125 | #1,685 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,702 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,385 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cattleya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cattleya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cattleya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cattleya, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,085 Americans ever recorded as Cattleya. The median Cattleya alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,940 |
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.
Where are babies named Cattleya born?
The states with the most babies named Cattleya are California, Texas and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #1,032 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 26 | #1,069 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 20 | #801 | 1.5× |
| Arizona | 11 | #589 | 1.1× |
| New York | 9 | #1,432 | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #576 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,039 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,405 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,312 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,431 | 0.5× |
Where Cattleya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cattleya is most over-represented in Florida: since 2011 it was given 1.5 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 Cattleya 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 21,453 babies since 1880, Cattleya is the third most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 187 of their 2,436 babies (7.7%), again the third most given.
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 Cattleya
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 Cattleya and names like it
- Compare Cattleya and CataleyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCattleya peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cattleya since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Cattleya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cattleya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.