Meaning not yet researched.
Cattaleya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 145 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,375 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,375 in 2024; #1,479 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cattaleya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,479 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,375.
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Cattaleya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 145 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,375 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 165 (2024).
In 2025, 145 US girls were named Cattaleya, making it the 1,479th most common girls’ name of the year, down 104 places from #1,375 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 165 girls named Cattaleya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,375, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 165. For comparison, it was #4,318 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cattaleya in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 46 babies. In all, 966 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 590 babies named Cattaleya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 796 US girls were named Cattaleya; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 165. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,085 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cattaleya ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #919 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cataleya (11,955 babies since 1880) and Kataleya (4,780 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Cattaleya 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #919 | — |
| Texas | 31 | #922 | #2,237 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,080 | — |
| California | 22 | #1,157 | #2,062 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,277 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,308 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,339 | — |
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).