Katerina
Katerina was given to 151 girls in 2025, #1,431 among girls’ names; 8,021 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,880 Americans named Katerina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 12 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katerina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katerina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Katerina is “a female given name.”
Also “a transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Russian female given name Катери́на (Katerína)”
/ˌkætəˈɹiːnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katerina?
#1,431 among girls’ names, 2025
Katerina fell from #1,160 in 2015 to #1,431 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.09 per 1,000.
259 babies in 1998, the peak
Katerina peaked in 1998, when 259 girls were given it, #822 among girls’ names. The 151 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 151 | #1,431 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 153 | #1,444 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,526 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 167 | #1,378 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 195 | #1,216 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 191 | #1,204 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,364 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 206 | #1,172 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 168 | #1,374 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 197 | #1,239 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 218 | #1,160 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 206 | #1,189 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 179 | #1,314 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 156 | #1,464 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 150 | #1,494 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,533 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 150 | #1,520 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 184 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 188 | #1,301 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,347 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 208 | #1,130 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 206 | #1,109 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 233 | #992 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 221 | #998 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 206 | #1,039 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 236 | #917 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,014 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 259 | #822 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 200 | #977 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 206 | #939 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 202 | #933 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 250 | #806 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 229 | #848 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 217 | #900 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 149 | #1,174 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 118 | #1,345 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 107 | #1,398 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 96 | #1,439 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 76 | #1,621 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,922 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,914 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,893 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,696 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,265 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,243 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,792 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,097 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,139 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,353 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,456 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,821 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,152 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,654 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,292 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,351 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,415 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,509 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,620 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,982 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,305 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,128 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,512 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,687 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,159 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katerina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katerina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katerina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katerina, and how old are they?
7,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,021 Americans ever recorded as Katerina. The median Katerina alive today is 23 years old; half are between 12 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 9,171 people named Katerina (9,161 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,968 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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 | 63 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 512 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,320 |
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 Katerina born?
The states with the most babies named Katerina are Florida, New York and California, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #936 | 1.3× |
| New York | 16 | #960 | 1.8× |
| California | 15 | #1,533 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,670 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 10 | #883 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 10 | #650 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #821 | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,357 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,117 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,269 | 1.4× |
Where Katerina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katerina is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1954 it was given 1.9 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 Katerina 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 138,585 babies since 1880, Katerina is the fourth most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 151 of their 491 babies (31%), 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 Katerina
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 Katerina and names like it
- Compare Katerina and KatrinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaterina peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katerina since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Katerina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Katerina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.