Katia
Katia was given to 93 girls in 2025, #2,042 among girls’ names; 6,339 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,230 Americans named Katia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Katia is “a female given name from Russian, variant of Katya.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katia?
#2,042 among girls’ names, 2025
Katia fell from #1,876 in 2015 to #2,042 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 61.1 to 57.9 per million.
272 babies in 1996, the peak
Katia peaked in 1996, when 272 girls were given it, #772 among girls’ names. The 93 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,042 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,862 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 123 | #1,684 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,097 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,197 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,774 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,826 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,845 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 93 | #2,091 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,765 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 109 | #1,876 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,629 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,771 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,556 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,625 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 204 | #1,193 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,553 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 170 | #1,402 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,548 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 215 | #1,140 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,233 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 196 | #1,156 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 190 | #1,142 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 211 | #1,028 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 261 | #880 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 253 | #872 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 215 | #962 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 222 | #934 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 193 | #1,004 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 272 | #772 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 164 | #1,086 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,650 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 97 | #1,582 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,475 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,584 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,784 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,879 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,894 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,110 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,923 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,984 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,623 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,920 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,426 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,018 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,990 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,065 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,404 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,634 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,828 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,706 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,869 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,778 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,221 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,100 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,608 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,277 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,936 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,552 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,813 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katia, and how old are they?
6,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,339 Americans ever recorded as Katia. The median Katia alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 11,440 people named Katia (11,414 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 388 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,390 |
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 Katia born?
The states with the most babies named Katia are Texas, California and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,334 | 2.0× |
| California | 17 | #1,388 | 1.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,144 | 0.3× |
Where Katia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1960 it was given 2.0 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 Katia 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 371,055 babies since 1880, Katia is the fourth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 93 of their 1,229 babies (7.6%), the third 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 Katia
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 Katia and names like it
- Compare Katia and KatieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKatia peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katia since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Katia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Katia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.