Meaning not yet researched.
Katia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 93 in 2025. Its best rank was #772 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #772 in 1996; #2,042 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Katia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,042 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #772.
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Katia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 93 girls in 2025. Peak: #772 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 272 (1996).
In 2025, 93 US girls were named Katia, making it the 2,042nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 180 places from #1,862 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 108 girls named Katia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #772, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 272. For comparison, it was #1,876 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Katia in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 5 babies. In all, 6,339 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,975 babies named Katia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,046 US girls were named Katia; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,282 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Katia ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,144 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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 Kathy (334,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Katiyah and Katija are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kate and Katie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Katiyah (11), Katija (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,144 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,334 | #828 |
| California | 17 | #1,388 | #1,510 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 2023 | 123 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 2017 | 93 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2015 | 109 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2010 | 204 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 2008 | 170 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 2006 | 215 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 2004 | 196 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2003 | 190 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 2002 | 211 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 2001 | 261 | #880 | — | — |
| 2000 | 253 | #873 | — | — |
| 1999 | 215 | #964 | — | — |
| 1998 | 222 | #935 | — | — |
| 1997 | 193 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1996 | 272 | #772 | — | — |
| 1995 | 164 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1993 | 97 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,706 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,937 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,514 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,132 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,246 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,582 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,814 | — | — |
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).