Meaning not yet researched.
Katara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,574 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,574 in 2024; #3,547 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Katara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,547 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,574.
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Katara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,574 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 69 (2024).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Katara, making it the 3,547th most common girls’ name of the year, down 973 places from #2,574 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 69 girls named Katara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,574, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 69. For comparison, it was #5,211 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Katara in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,479 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 355 babies named Katara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 482 US girls were named Katara; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 69. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Katera, Catera and Katurah 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Katera (551), Catera (397), Katurah (285), Katerra (240), Katura (196), Katora (118), Katira (67), Katyra (62), Catara (23), Katiera (16), Katarra (10), Kateara (5), and more.
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 Katara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,942 | — | — |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,531 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,317 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,609 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,956 | — | — |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,235 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,817 | — | — |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,993 | — | — |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,628 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,156 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,627 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,241 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,007 | — | — |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,066 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,658 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,120 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,546 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,827 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,153 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,450 | — | — |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,668 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,954 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,506 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,804 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,964 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,730 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,150 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,993 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,885 | — | — |
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).