Meaning not yet researched.
Catalina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,456 in 2025. Its best rank was #111 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Catalina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#111 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Catalina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,456 girls in 2025. Peak: #111 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 2,456 (2025).
In 2025, 2,456 US girls were named Catalina, making it the 111th most common girls’ name of the year, up 17 places from #128 in 2024. That is 234 more than the 2,222 girls named Catalina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #111, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,456. For comparison, it was #325 in 2015 and #1,413 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Catalina in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 8 babies. In all, 33,016 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 11,909 babies named Catalina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,101 US girls were named Catalina; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,456. In 2025 that was about 1 in 654 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Catalina ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #29 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 7 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Karen (990,774 babies since 1880), Catherine (669,611 babies since 1880), Katherine (652,750 babies since 1880) and Kathy (334,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Katalyna, Kathalina and Catalyna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Katalyna (666), Kathalina (337), Catalyna (271), Katalena (218), Cathalina (217), Catalena (166), Katelina (42), Catelina (11), Cataleena (5), Katalinna (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 Catalina 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 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 621 | #29 | #169 |
| California | 570 | #38 | #230 |
| Nevada | 38 | #48 | #234 |
| Arizona | 79 | #68 | #250 |
| New Mexico | 16 | #77 | #105 |
| Florida | 191 | #82 | #159 |
| Illinois | 98 | #83 | #314 |
| Colorado | 50 | #104 | #342 |
| Oklahoma | 32 | #110 | #392 |
| Kansas | 26 | #123 | #474 |
| Washington | 53 | #123 | #417 |
| New Jersey | 54 | #144 | #213 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #156 | #201 |
| Oregon | 22 | #161 | #707 |
| North Carolina | 63 | #163 | #546 |
| Arkansas | 16 | #189 | — |
| Maryland | 27 | #190 | #463 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #196 | #232 |
| Virginia | 42 | #197 | #415 |
| Georgia | 53 | #201 | #596 |
| Indiana | 34 | #204 | #590 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #209 | — |
| Utah | 19 | #239 | #405 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #248 | #374 |
| Iowa | 13 | #261 | #536 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #279 | #528 |
| New York | 57 | #296 | #427 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #299 | #450 |
| Idaho | 7 | #317 | #323 |
| Michigan | 27 | #334 | #484 |
| Ohio | 28 | #403 | #628 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #405 | #449 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #421 | #753 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #436 | #506 |
| Missouri | 13 | #446 | #760 |
| Alabama | 11 | #449 | — |
| Tennessee | 17 | #460 | #624 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #617 | #688 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,456 | #111 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,222 | #128 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,935 | #146 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,953 | #149 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,746 | #166 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,597 | #179 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,566 | #189 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,364 | #237 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,229 | #260 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,033 | #315 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,005 | #325 | — | — |
| 2014 | 889 | #366 | — | — |
| 2013 | 781 | #394 | — | — |
| 2012 | 642 | #476 | — | — |
| 2011 | 443 | #647 | — | — |
| 2010 | 417 | #688 | — | — |
| 2009 | 503 | #599 | — | — |
| 2008 | 425 | #705 | — | — |
| 2007 | 411 | #711 | — | — |
| 2006 | 411 | #687 | — | — |
| 2005 | 420 | #659 | — | — |
| 2004 | 340 | #766 | — | — |
| 2003 | 328 | #757 | — | — |
| 2002 | 294 | #796 | — | — |
| 2001 | 310 | #769 | — | — |
| 2000 | 300 | #763 | — | — |
| 1999 | 257 | #841 | — | — |
| 1998 | 220 | #938 | — | — |
| 1997 | 227 | #889 | — | — |
| 1996 | 232 | #859 | — | — |
| 1995 | 200 | #945 | — | — |
| 1994 | 239 | #839 | — | — |
| 1993 | 218 | #887 | — | — |
| 1992 | 220 | #893 | — | — |
| 1991 | 222 | #886 | 7 | #6,613 |
| 1990 | 201 | #943 | — | — |
| 1989 | 217 | #859 | — | — |
| 1988 | 134 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1987 | 105 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1986 | 123 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1985 | 109 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1984 | 127 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1983 | 116 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1981 | 120 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1980 | 130 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1979 | 104 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1978 | 115 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1977 | 119 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1976 | 113 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1975 | 112 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1973 | 67 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1972 | 82 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1971 | 96 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1970 | 90 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1967 | 66 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1966 | 70 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1965 | 86 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1964 | 76 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1963 | 67 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1959 | 62 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1951 | 55 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1949 | 49 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1948 | 51 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1943 | 40 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1940 | 49 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1939 | 49 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1937 | 45 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1936 | 46 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1935 | 55 | #939 | — | — |
| 1934 | 65 | #848 | — | — |
| 1933 | 64 | #836 | — | — |
| 1932 | 65 | #862 | — | — |
| 1931 | 69 | #821 | — | — |
| 1930 | 115 | #645 | — | — |
| 1929 | 87 | #752 | — | — |
| 1928 | 100 | #704 | — | — |
| 1927 | 78 | #835 | — | — |
| 1926 | 91 | #757 | — | — |
| 1925 | 96 | #753 | — | — |
| 1924 | 102 | #731 | — | — |
| 1923 | 64 | #916 | — | — |
| 1922 | 74 | #854 | — | — |
| 1921 | 62 | #942 | — | — |
| 1920 | 63 | #914 | — | — |
| 1919 | 50 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1918 | 40 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1917 | 49 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,099 | — | — |
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).