Katana
Katana was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,426 among girls’ names; 1,771 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Katana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Katana?
#3,426 among girls’ names, 2025
Katana fell from #2,729 in 2015 to #3,426 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 36.4 to 28.0 per million.
79 babies in 2023, the peak
Katana peaked in 2023, when 79 girls were given it, #2,326 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,426 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,573 | 42.6 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,326 | 49.2 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,649 | 40.2 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,545 | 42.1 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,914 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,799 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,632 | 38.8 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,805 | 35.3 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,038 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,729 | 36.4 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,026 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,290 | 27.9 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,145 | 30.1 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,380 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,544 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,837 | 33.7 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,814 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,949 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,890 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,381 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,627 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,066 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,845 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,164 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,993 | 25.9 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,761 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,590 | 30.0 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,292 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,386 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,275 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,331 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,790 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,252 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,083 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,273 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,730 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,004 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,468 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,049 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,556 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,266 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,448 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,025 | 4.6 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,853 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,683 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,648 | 4.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,029 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,136 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katana, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,771 Americans ever recorded as Katana. The median Katana alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,250 people named Katana (1,239 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,386 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 166 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 752 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 791 |
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 Katana born?
The states with the most babies named Katana are California, Texas and Florida, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 181 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Katana 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 18,999 babies since 1880, Katana is the third most given (9.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 58 babies (78%), the 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 Katana
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 Katana and names like it
- Compare Katana and KatinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKatana peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katana since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Katana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Katana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.