Kateryna
Kateryna was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,770 among girls’ names; 169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kateryna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kateryna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kateryna is “a female given name from Ukrainian.”
Also “a transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Катери́на (Katerýna).”
/ˌkætəˈɹɪnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kateryna?
#9,770 among girls’ names, 2025
Kateryna rose from #11,371 in 2015 to #9,770 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 6.2 per million.
15 babies in 2024, the peak
Kateryna peaked in 2024, when 15 girls were given it, #7,412 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,770 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,412 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,949 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,437 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,630 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,297 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,664 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,358 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,050 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,308 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,371 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,802 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,562 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,193 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,745 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,398 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,041 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,511 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,418 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,485 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,096 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,270 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kateryna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kateryna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kateryna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kateryna, and how old are they?
An estimated 168 Americans named Kateryna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,384 people named Kateryna (2,383 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 115 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20.7 times 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.
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 125,480 babies since 1880, Kateryna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 386 babies (2.6%), the fifth 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 Kateryna
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 Kateryna and names like it
- Compare Kateryna and KatrinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Kateryna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kateryna alive today were born 2013-2025.
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