Meaning not yet researched.
Katya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,314 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,314 in 2000; #3,614 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Katya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,614 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,314.
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Katya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,314 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 146 (2001).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Katya, making it the 3,614th most common girls’ name of the year, down 905 places from #2,709 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 64 girls named Katya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,314, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 146, in 2001. For comparison, it was #3,367 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Katya in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 3,176 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,086 babies named Katya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 555 US girls were named Katya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Katie (241,784 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Katya 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 | 42 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,709 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,367 | — | — |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1996 | 115 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,618 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,909 | — | — |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,794 | — | — |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,067 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,283 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,709 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,421 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,457 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,145 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,180 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,745 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,175 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,513 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,029 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,945 | — | — |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,944 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,859 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,357 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,781 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,146 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,530 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,728 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,022 | — | — |
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).