Katarina
Katarina was given to 113 girls in 2025, #1,788 among girls’ names; 9,357 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,210 Americans named Katarina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katarina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katarina mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Katarina is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Catherine”
From the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē), name of a saint. First recorded in Sweden around 1200 as Katerina.
/kata²riːna/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katarina?
#1,788 among girls’ names, 2025
Katarina fell from #1,359 in 2015 to #1,788 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 98.0 to 70.3 per million.
523 babies in 1994, the peak
Katarina peaked in 1994, when 523 girls were given it, #477 among girls’ names. The 113 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,788 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 116 | #1,748 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,861 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 128 | #1,654 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,404 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 143 | #1,518 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,604 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,390 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 175 | #1,359 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 187 | #1,282 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 188 | #1,265 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 140 | #1,563 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 164 | #1,399 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,638 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 149 | #1,524 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 202 | #1,245 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 204 | #1,226 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 225 | #1,116 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 260 | #952 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 287 | #857 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 292 | #836 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 335 | #728 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 362 | #689 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 387 | #646 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 326 | #692 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 396 | #607 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 371 | #611 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 370 | #618 | 0.21 |
| 1995 | 446 | #535 | 0.25 |
| 1994 | 523 | #477 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 390 | #599 | 0.22 |
| 1992 | 405 | #576 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 186 | #1,000 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 140 | #1,207 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 106 | #1,406 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 173 | #963 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,798 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,314 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,676 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,785 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,360 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,422 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,567 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,089 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,563 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,968 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,742 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,841 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,849 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,702 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,400 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,495 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,934 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,778 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,124 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,516 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katarina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katarina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katarina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katarina, and how old are they?
9,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,357 Americans ever recorded as Katarina. The median Katarina alive today is 25 years old; half are between 16 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 9,543 people named Katarina (9,534 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 26 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 175 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,900 |
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 Katarina born?
The states with the most babies named Katarina are California, Texas and Florida, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,296 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,578 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,289 | 1.1× |
| New York | 9 | #1,460 | 1.0× |
Where Katarina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katarina is most over-represented in Florida: since 1958 it was given 1.1 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 Katarina 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 139,784 babies since 1880, Katarina is the third most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 113 of their 509 babies (22%), the second 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 Katarina
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 Katarina and names like it
- Compare Katarina and KatrinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKatarina peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katarina since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Katarina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Katarina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Katarina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.