Katara
Katara was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,546 among girls’ names; 1,479 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Katara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Katara?
#3,546 among girls’ names, 2025
Katara rose from #5,209 in 2015 to #3,546 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 26.8 per million.
69 babies in 2024, the peak
Katara peaked in 2024, when 69 girls were given it, #2,574 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,546 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,574 | 42.6 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,870 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,012 | 33.5 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,661 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,672 | 39.0 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,688 | 24.4 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,938 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,529 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,784 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,209 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,315 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,607 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,955 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,107 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,545 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,234 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,816 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,989 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,627 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,151 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,622 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,236 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,002 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,375 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,061 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,653 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,870 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,116 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,541 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,822 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,147 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,309 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,444 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,662 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,749 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,200 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,949 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,048 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,941 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,971 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,504 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,985 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,802 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,025 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,909 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,963 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,154 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,219 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,043 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,728 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,149 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,991 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,883 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katara, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,479 Americans ever recorded as Katara. The median Katara alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 953 people named Katara (946 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,124 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 | 122 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 331 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 434 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 568 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,252 babies since 1880, Katara is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 80 babies (54%), 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 Katara
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 Katara and names like it
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Katara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Katara alive today were born 2013-2025.
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