Katarzyna — girls' name
721 babies named Katarzyna in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
43% of everyone ever named Katarzyna was born in this single decade.
41 babies were named Katarzyna in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Katarzyna
The Social Security Administration has registered 721 babies named Katarzyna between 1980 and 2023, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Katarzyna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 41 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Katarzyna performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 309 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Katarzyna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 253 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Katarzyna in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Katarzyna 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 721 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.
Katarzyna at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Katarzyna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1980
- Peak year (1998)
- 41
- Annual births at peak — across 44 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
721 total births across 44 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 41 births in a single year.
Katarzyna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 309 births that decade — 43% of Katarzyna's all-time total
Katarzyna decade highlights
- Peak decade 309 births
- Runner-up 168 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Katarzyna's strongest decade
309 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Katarzyna by state
Where Katarzyna concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 253 | 35.1% |
| #2 | New York | | 87 | 12.1% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.7% |
253 of 721 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 35.1% of nationwide
- New York 12.1% of nationwide
- New Jersey 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 35.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1980–2023 (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.