Meaning not yet researched.
Cataleya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,314 in 2025. Its best rank was #236 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #236 in 2024; #238 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cataleya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#238 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #236.
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Cataleya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,314 girls in 2025. Peak: #236 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 1,315 (2024).
In 2025, 1,314 US girls were named Cataleya, making it the 238th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2 places from #236 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 1,315 girls named Cataleya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #236, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,315. For comparison, it was #437 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cataleya in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2011 with 29 babies. In all, 11,955 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,520 babies named Cataleya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,181 US girls were named Cataleya; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,315. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cataleya ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #65 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kataleya (4,780 babies since 1880) and Cattaleya (966 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kattaleya, Catalia and Kataleyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kattaleya (397), Catalia (281), Kataleyah (267), Kataleia (228), Cataleyah (225), Katalea (212), Catalea (204), Kathaleya (190), Cataleia (184), Cathaleya (120), Cataleah (110), Cateleya (101), and more.
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 Cataleya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 18 | #65 | #155 |
| Texas | 311 | #83 | #276 |
| Arizona | 62 | #97 | #263 |
| California | 280 | #105 | #294 |
| Nevada | 18 | #134 | — |
| Idaho | 12 | #180 | — |
| Colorado | 28 | #228 | #487 |
| Nebraska | 10 | #228 | — |
| Illinois | 44 | #232 | #356 |
| Florida | 79 | #240 | #280 |
| Kansas | 12 | #265 | #647 |
| Georgia | 37 | #270 | #831 |
| Washington | 26 | #276 | #416 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #284 | #343 |
| New Jersey | 27 | #305 | #541 |
| North Carolina | 33 | #335 | #459 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #348 | — |
| Minnesota | 15 | #359 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #363 | #432 |
| Utah | 12 | #366 | — |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #369 | #399 |
| Indiana | 18 | #378 | #539 |
| New York | 45 | #380 | #669 |
| Tennessee | 21 | #381 | #690 |
| Virginia | 21 | #383 | #522 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #401 | #757 |
| Maryland | 13 | #403 | #707 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #405 | #535 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #444 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #503 | #600 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #616 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #655 | #622 |
| Ohio | 14 | #679 | #595 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #773 | #752 |
| Michigan | 9 | #802 | #594 |
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).