In 2025, 29 US girls were named Caterina, making it the 4,679th most common girls’ name of the year, down 624 places from #4,055 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 36 girls named Caterina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,608, reached in 1968. The most girls given the name in a single year was 68, in 2014. For comparison, it was #3,492 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caterina in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 3,017 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 570 babies named Caterina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 447 US girls were named Caterina; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Kathryn (456,515 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.