Catarina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Katarina in HR Croatia, US United States, SE Sweden and 8 more, Katharina in DE Germany, AT Austria, ES Spain and 4 more, Catharina in NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa and Katariina in FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Catarina is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name13K records spelled Catarina5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Catarína, Čătârïňa

• German given name3.8K records spelled Catarina2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Austria, United States, Sweden

  Also written Catariná

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Catarina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, variante de Caterina

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Swedish, a female given name, a less common spelling of Katarina

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, a female given name, a less common variant of Katharina

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, ladybug, ladybird (insect of the family Coccinellidae)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Vietnamese, Catherine

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 129 years between 1888–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Catherine of Braganzab. 1638PTnot in their usual nameQueen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (1638–1705)
• Catarina Marques de Almeida Vaz Pintob. 1960PTPortuguese lawyer
• Catarina Lindqvistb. 1963SESwedish tennis player
• Catarina Lindgrenb. 1963SEfigure skater
• Pandorab. 1970SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer, recording artist, musician
• Catarina Furtadob. 1972PTPortuguese actress
• Catarina Martinsb. 1973PTPortuguese politician
• Catarina Wallensteinb. 1986PTPortuguese actress
• Catarina Costab. 1996PTPortuguese judoka
• Catarina Macariob. 1999BRAmerican soccer player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 519 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Catarina?

We estimate roughly 453 thousand people bear Catarina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Catarina have the most bearers?

Catarina is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled katharina.

Where is Catarina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Catarina is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 75 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.

How common is Catarina compared with other names?

In Germany, Catarina is the 82nd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.

Is Catarina a male or female name?

Catarina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Catarina mean?

Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine