Katalina
Katalina was given to 720 girls in 2025, #430 among girls’ names; 8,727 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,660 Americans named Katalina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katalina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katalina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Katalina is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katalina?
#430 among girls’ names, 2025
Katalina rose from #788 in 2015 to #430 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.20 to 0.45 per 1,000.
720 babies in 2025, the peak
Katalina peaked in 2025, when 720 girls were given it, #430 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 708 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 720 | #430 | 0.45 |
| 2024 | 708 | #439 | 0.44 |
| 2023 | 682 | #454 | 0.43 |
| 2022 | 667 | #476 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 552 | #554 | 0.34 |
| 2020 | 528 | #557 | 0.33 |
| 2019 | 521 | #585 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 476 | #629 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 457 | #646 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 349 | #825 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 358 | #788 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 336 | #824 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 297 | #868 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 254 | #996 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 156 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 125 | #1,689 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,588 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,639 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,901 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,983 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,897 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,843 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,329 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,878 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,958 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,039 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,352 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,511 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,209 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,921 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,750 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,904 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,849 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,447 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,716 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,272 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,941 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,763 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,100 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,226 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,555 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,129 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,882 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katalina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katalina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katalina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katalina, and how old are they?
8,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,727 Americans ever recorded as Katalina. The median Katalina alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 4,219 people named Katalina (4,212 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,966 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 308 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,610 |
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 Katalina born?
The states with the most babies named Katalina are Texas, California and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 183 | #180 | 2.2× |
| California | 151 | #219 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 48 | #389 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 36 | #298 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 32 | #217 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #462 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 17 | #421 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #631 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #517 | 0.6× |
| New York | 14 | #1,057 | 0.6× |
Where Katalina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katalina is most over-represented in Texas: since 1971 it was given 2.2 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 Katalina 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 43,278 babies since 1880, Katalina is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 720 of their 3,263 babies (22%), again the second 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 Katalina
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 Katalina and names like it
- Compare Katalina and CatalinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKatalina peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katalina since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Katalina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Katalina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.