Ekaterini — girls' name
201 babies named Ekaterini in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1978. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Ekaterini was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Ekaterini in 1978 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ekaterini
The Social Security Administration has registered 201 babies named Ekaterini between 1973 and 2008, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ekaterini currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ekaterini performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 70 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ekaterini shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ekaterini in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ekaterini in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 201 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Ekaterini at a glance
Last recorded 2008Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ekaterini popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–1973
- Peak year (1978)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2008.
201 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1978 with 15 births in a single year.
Ekaterini by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 70 births that decade — 35% of Ekaterini's all-time total
Ekaterini decade highlights
- Peak decade 70 births
- Runner-up 60 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Ekaterini's strongest decade
70 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Ekaterini by state
Where Ekaterini concentrates geographically — total births since 1973
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 30 | 14.9% |
30 of 201 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 14.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 14.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1973–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.