In 2025, 83 US girls were named Katrina, making it the 2,226th most common girls’ name of the year, down 598 places from #1,628 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 128 girls named Katrina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #87, reached in 1982. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,397, in 1980. For comparison, it was #1,133 in 2015 and #602 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Katrina in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 101,731 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 28,952 babies named Katrina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,386 US girls were named Katrina; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 196. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Katrina ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #1,003 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 Katryna, Kathrina and Catriona are summarised on this page.