Meaning not yet researched.
Catalaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,719 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,719 in 2014; #3,532 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Catalaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,532 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,719.
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Catalaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,719 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 64 (2014).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Catalaya, making it the 3,532nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 183 places from #3,349 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 47 girls named Catalaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,719, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #3,187 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Catalaya in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 51 babies. In all, 710 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 429 babies named Catalaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 485 US girls were named Catalaya; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Katalaya, Catelaya and Katilaya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Katalaya (479), Catelaya (46), Katilaya (42), Katalayah (38), Catalayah (22), Catilaya (16), Cattalaya (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Catalaya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).