Katerina — #1446 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Katerina

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,866 babies named Katerina between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Katerina currently holds the #1446 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 259 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Katerina performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,031 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Katerina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 955 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Katerina in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Katerina 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 7,866 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.