Catharina
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Catharina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is the 82nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script.
- NLNetherlands1 in 75◐
- FIFinland1 in 116
- HRCroatia1 in 148
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈453K ●
- #911 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 278 ●
- 1 in 75 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
568K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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, Catarina in BR Brazil, PT Portugal, MX Mexico and 3 more 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #82 | 280,947 | 244K rec. | — | 2 | Katharina | 257 |
| NL Netherlands | #11 | 231,454△ | 4K rec. | 1 in 75 | 231K | Catharina | 77 |
| AT Austria | #24 | 104,947 | 12K rec. | — | 27K | Katharina | 151 |
| BR Brazil | #441 | 71,392△ | 17K rec. | 1 in 3K | 71K | Catarina | 156 |
| SE Sweden | #42 | 48,882△ | 21K rec. | 1 in 209 | 49K | Katarina | 122 |
| FI Finland | #49 | 48,237△ | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 116 | 59K | Katariina | 71 |
| PT Portugal | #34 | 46,702 | 20K rec. | — | listed | Catarina | 189 |
| HR Croatia | #17 | 28,618 | 80K rec. | 1 in 148 | 29K | Katarina | 125 |
| MX Mexico | #829 | 26,272 | 33K rec. | — | 62 | Catarina | 59 |
| RS Serbia | #41 | 14,820 | 6.9K rec. | — | listed | Katarina | 82 |
| ZA South Africa | #278 | 11,571 | 12K rec. | — | — | Catharina | 48 |
| RU Russia | — | 10,581 | 5.3K rec. | — | #558 | Катарина | 113 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian313K33%
- Dutch260K27%
- English256K27%
- Portuguese74K8%
- German17K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 312,740 | 33% |
| Dutch | 259,715 | 27% |
| English | 256,334 | 27% |
| Portuguese | 73,877 | 8% |
| German | 17,057 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Catharina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a female given name, a less common spelling of Katarina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, a female given name, a less common variant of Katharina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, archaic spelling of Catarina
as a wordkaikki.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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1955 | 8 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 8 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 6 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 11 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 14 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1948–2025. 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 Gueldersb. 1439DEnot in their usual nameDutch nobler (1439-1497)
- Catarina van Hemessenb. 1528BEnot in their usual nameFlemish Renaissance painter
- Catherine Stenbockb. 1535SEnot in their usual nameQueen Consort of Sweden (1535-1621)
- Catherine Vasa of Swedenb. 1539SEnot in their usual nameRegent of East Frisia; Swedish princess, writer
- Catharine of Nassau-Dillenburgb. 1543DEnot in their usual nameGerman nobleman (1543–1624)
- Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassaub. 1578BECountess of Orange-Nassau by birth and by marriage Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg (1578-1648)
- Catharina Dorothea Bachb. 1708DEfirst child of Johann Sebastian Bach and of Bach's first wife, Maria Barbara (1708-1774)
- Catharina Loddersb. 1942NLDutch beauty pageant contestant
- Tintin Anderzonb. 1964SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orangeb. 2003NLheir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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●
Attested in 54 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 441 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Catharina?
- We estimate roughly 453 thousand people bear Catharina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Catharina have the most bearers?
- Catharina is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled katharina.
- Where is Catharina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Catharina is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 75 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Catharina compared with other names?
- In Germany, Catharina is the 82nd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Catharina a male or female name?
- Catharina 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Catharina” — the 82nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.