Girl

Caterina

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#4,679
29 girls
2015
#3,492
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Caterina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,608 in 1968.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,608 in 1968; #4,679 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caterina in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#4,679 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #1,608.

Babies in 2025
29
Since 1880
3,017
Years on record
94

Babies named Caterina, every year since 1880

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Girls

Caterina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,608 in 1968 · most girls in one year: 68 (2014).

About the name Caterina

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

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 Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Caterina in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202529#4,679——
202436#4,055——
202348#3,339——
202248#3,324——
202145#3,448——
202036#3,941——
201956#2,935——
201850#3,213——
201756#2,933——
201643#3,597——
201545#3,492——
201468#2,590——
201340#3,797——
201243#3,653——
201136#4,083——
201039#3,902——
200947#3,468——
200853#3,166——
200752#3,259——
200665#2,733——
200560#2,764——
200459#2,753——
200351#2,960——
200259#2,608——
200165#2,413——
200059#2,547——
199955#2,574——
199848#2,765——
199750#2,565——
199654#2,402——
199552#2,460——
199460#2,211——
199349#2,540——
199256#2,324——
199133#3,314——
199029#3,636——
198924#4,036——
198828#3,404——
198725#3,535——
198621#3,905——
198521#3,872——
198427#3,158——
198327#3,078——
198244#2,256——
198130#2,933——
198034#2,703——
197931#2,801——
197837#2,394——
197743#2,166——
197648#1,883——
197543#2,026——
197442#2,001——
197339#2,069——
197239#2,026——
197150#1,773——
197043#1,955——
196936#2,108——
196851#1,608——
196737#1,926——
196639#1,829——
196542#1,743——
196443#1,784——
196320#2,791——
196227#2,316——
196119#2,850——
196013#3,531——
195918#2,770——
19587#4,965——
195710#3,967——
195612#3,519——
195510#3,812——
19545#5,846——
19516#4,920——
19485#5,334——
19327#3,622——
19285#4,824——
19277#3,922——
19258#3,716——
19236#4,462——
19228#3,714——
19217#4,083——
19205#5,100——
19195#4,936——
191810#3,062——
191711#2,720——
191610#2,861——
19157#3,487——
191413#1,916——
19137#2,578——
19126#2,683——
19116#2,238——
19108#1,796——
19096#1,998——
19045#1,931——

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).