Kathalina — #6018 US girls' name
296 babies named Kathalina in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 66% of names given to girls today.
52% of everyone ever named Kathalina was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Kathalina in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kathalina
The Social Security Administration has registered 296 babies named Kathalina between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kathalina currently holds the #6018 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 29 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kathalina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 155 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kathalina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 49 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kathalina in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kathalina 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 296 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.
Kathalina at a glance
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Current rank
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Kathalina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1980
- Peak year (2018)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
Currently ranks #6018 among girls.
296 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 29 births in a single year.
Kathalina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 155 births that decade — 52% of Kathalina's all-time total
Kathalina decade highlights
- Peak decade 155 births
- Runner-up 98 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kathalina's strongest decade
155 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Kathalina by state
Where Kathalina concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 49 | 16.6% |
| #2 | California | | 15 | 5.1% |
49 of 296 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 16.6% of nationwide
- California 5.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 16.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 1980–2024 (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.