In 2025, 12 US girls were named Catrina, making it the 8,464th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,224 places from #9,688 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 10 girls named Catrina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #452, reached in 1973. The most girls given the name in a single year was 454, in 1980. For comparison, it was #9,610 in 2015 and #4,810 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Catrina in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 6 babies. In all, 10,150 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 3,388 babies named Catrina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 117 US girls were named Catrina; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Katrina (101,731 babies since 1880) and Katrena (1,422 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Caitriona and Catreena are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.