Katya
Katya was given to 42 girls in 2025, #3,613 among girls’ names; 3,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,130 Americans named Katya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Katya is “a female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, equivalent to English Kate.”
Transliteration of Russian and Ukrainian Ка́тя (Kátja), diminutive of Екатери́на (Jekaterína), Катери́на (Katerýna).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katya?
#3,613 among girls’ names, 2025
Katya fell from #3,367 in 2015 to #3,613 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 26.1 per million.
146 babies in 2001, the peak
Katya peaked in 2001, when 146 girls were given it, #1,318 among girls’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,613 | 26.1 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,709 | 39.5 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,063 | 33.7 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,342 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,868 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,311 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,696 | 38.1 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,084 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,950 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,606 | 38.4 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,367 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,568 | 38.6 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,743 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,465 | 42.6 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,468 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,130 | 52.3 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,300 | 46.3 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,404 | 42.3 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,206 | 46.8 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,871 | 57.3 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,957 | 53.0 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,691 | 62.6 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,836 | 55.3 |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,590 | 65.1 |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,318 | 81.1 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,312 | 79.8 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,466 | 66.5 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,484 | 65.1 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,006 | 40.8 |
| 1996 | 115 | #1,430 | 65.6 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,259 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,933 | 40.9 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,613 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,358 | 29.8 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,903 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,109 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,726 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,524 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,791 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,313 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,196 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,066 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,282 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,707 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,420 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,057 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,455 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,144 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,178 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,743 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,173 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,512 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,027 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,191 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,943 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,943 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,858 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,356 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,780 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,145 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,529 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,727 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,021 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katya, and how old are they?
3,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,176 Americans ever recorded as Katya. The median Katya alive today is 23 years old; half are between 14 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 4,550 people named Katya (4,538 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,836 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 154 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 617 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 730 |
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 Katya born?
The states with the most babies named Katya are California, Texas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,322 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,557 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,145 | 0.4× |
Where Katya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katya is most over-represented in California: since 1962 it was given 1.5 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 Katya 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 366,467 babies since 1880, Katya is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 1,227 babies (3.4%), 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 Katya
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 Katya and names like it
- Compare Katya and KatieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKatya peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katya since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Katya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Katya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Katya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.