Katherina
Katherina was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,013 among girls’ names; 1,683 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Katherina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 24 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katherina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Katherina?
#6,013 among girls’ names, 2025
Katherina rose from #6,345 in 2015 to #6,013 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 12.4 per million.
46 babies in 1991, the peak
Katherina peaked in 1991, when 46 girls were given it, #2,633 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,013 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,185 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,059 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,841 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,846 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,771 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,839 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,950 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,247 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,779 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,345 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,866 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,209 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,882 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,746 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,495 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,135 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,198 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,772 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,997 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,671 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,933 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,238 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,003 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,376 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,880 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,241 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,295 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,190 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,662 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,021 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,262 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,310 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,618 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,633 | 24.5 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,107 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,060 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,061 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,561 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,258 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,955 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,367 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,567 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,424 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,418 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,610 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,122 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,353 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,315 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,452 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,687 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,116 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,066 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,220 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,001 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,496 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,476 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,143 | 19.5 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,400 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,539 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,705 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,439 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,819 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,234 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,250 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,436 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,919 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,339 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,450 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,770 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,776 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,084 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,190 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,198 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,133 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,519 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,443 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,732 | 5.3 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,702 | 3.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,702 | 4.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,035 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,933 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,746 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,900 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,451 | 5.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,244 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,858 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,756 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,676 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,231 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,186 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,109 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,134 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,906 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,608 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,756 | 10.5 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,075 | 16.7 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,807 | 20.9 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,723 | 21.5 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,462 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,713 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,504 | 25.7 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,128 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,051 | 42.4 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,273 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,419 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,383 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katherina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katherina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katherina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katherina, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,683 Americans ever recorded as Katherina. The median Katherina alive today is 36 years old; half are between 24 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 1,838 people named Katherina (1,833 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 202 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 307 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 392 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 295 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 219 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,386,231 babies since 1880, Katherina is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 2,731 babies (<1%), the fourth 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.
More about Katherina and names like it
- Compare Katherina and CatherineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKatherina peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katherina since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Katherina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Katherina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.