Kata
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kata is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Kata, a vernacular short foim of the female personal name Catherine (Polish Katarzyna, Hungarian Katalin).
- HRCroatia1 in 187◐
- USUnited States1 in 777K
- MKNorth Macedonia1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈25K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 90 ●
- 1 in 187 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
100K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ката in MK North Macedonia.
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●
from Kata, a vernacular short foim of the female personal name Catherine (Polish Katarzyna, Hungarian Katalin).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #22 | 22,615 | 97K rec. | 1 in 187 | 23K | Kata | 50 |
| MK North Macedonia | #467 | 799 | 0 rec. | 1 in 2.7K | 799 | Ката | 3 |
| RS Serbia | #466 | 591 | 287 rec. | — | listed | Kata | 24 |
| IN India | — | 467 | 349 rec. | — | 9K | Kata | 17 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | 440 | 384 rec. | — | — | Kata | 13 |
| US United States | — | 428 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 777K | 545 | Kata | 90 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 385△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 5.5K | 385 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 182△ | 23 rec. | 1 in 56K | 182 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 175△ | 42 rec. | 1 in 32K | 228 | Kata | 5 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #479 | 142 | 7 rec. | — | — | Kata | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 68 | 73 rec. | — | — | Kata | 20 |
| MA Morocco | — | 59 | 91 rec. | — | — | Kata | 6 |
Roughly 23K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 187). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Croatian175K77%
- Hindi15K6%
- Hungarian10K5%
- English4.6K2%
- Spanish3.9K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 175,497 | 77% |
| Hindi | 14,575 | 6% |
| Hungarian | 10,276 | 5% |
| English | 4,563 | 2% |
| Spanish | 3,891 | 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●
Kata 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.
Rsi Kata Vaisvamitra (V)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Serbo-Croatian, svaki
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Hindu name of unknown meaning.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Akan, V. [red. katakata] 1. to cover; often with 8 0> ho, anim: to overspread, red, envelop, enwrap, Infold; r/.dura ho; - k. mu, to line or finish the Inside of, = dura mu. — 2. to cover, conceal, cloak
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In men, v., to deal un- justly, to cheat, to wrong, unjust, to defraud, to deceive. Kafango, to be unjust, unfaithful. Kafa- wé, to practice, use deceit
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 2 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1940 | 4 |
| 1941 | 3 |
| 1942 | 4 |
| 1943 | 2 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 9 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1948 | 2 |
| 1949 | 3 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1951 | 1 |
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 2 |
| 1954 | 2 |
| 1955 | 9 |
| 1956 | 6 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 4 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1961 | 7 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 4 |
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 7 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 9 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 4 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 4 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 2 |
| 1997 | 4 |
| 1998 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1923–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kata Bethlenb. 1700HUHungarian writer
- Kata Midorikawab. 1869JPJapanese nurse (1869–1962)
- Kata Dobób. 1974HUHungarian actress
- Kata Bartschb. 1979HUHungarian actress
- Kata Wéberb. 1980HUHungarian playwright and actress
- Kata Tüttőb. 1980HUHungarian politician
- Kata Losonczib. 1983HUHungarian actress
- Kata Gáspárb. 1987HUHungarian actress
- Kata Blanka Vasb. 2001HUHungarian cyclist
- Kata SarbóHUactress
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 57 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 23K | #27 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15K | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 9K | #1,034 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.6K | #1,397 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.1K | #2,824 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1K | #3,009 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 545 | #42,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 465 | #43,708 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 453 | #46,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 428 | #22,241 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 337 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kata?
- We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Kata (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kata have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 23 thousand people bear Kata in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kata.
- Where is Kata most common?
- Kata is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 187 people carrying it.
- How common is Kata compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Kata is the 22nd most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
- Is Kata a male or female name?
- Kata 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 Kata mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Kata, a vernacular short foim of the female personal name Catherine (Polish Katarzyna, Hungarian Katalin).
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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, “Kata” — the 22nd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.