Katalin

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Katalin is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine or Katherine.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 59◐
  • RORomania1 in 16K
  • DEGermany1 in 37K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈168K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
210 ●

42K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 59 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

KatalinLatin · Hungarian●2.1M records
ΚαταλινGreek · Greek●0 records

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●

a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine or Katherine

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Katalin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#12164,588△14K rec.1 in 59165KKatalin204
DE Germany—3,2503K rec.—1Katalin122
GB United Kingdom—2,3021.8K rec.——Katalin87
RO Romania#3941,923542 rec.——Katalin52
US United States—1,55515K rec.1 in 214K1.6KKatalin210
AU Australia—1,2821.2K rec.—1Katalin77
FR France—1,104850 rec.—listedKatalin120
AT Austria—888470 rec.—38Katalin56
SE Sweden—713△245 rec.1 in 14K713Katalin43
CA Canada—685657 rec.—6Katalin57
ES Spain—456578 rec.1 in 110K456Katalin46
NO Norway—36150 rec.—356Katalin21

Roughly 165K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 59). 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●

  • Hungarian2.1M98%
  • English15K1%
  • German4.5K1%
  • Spanish2.4K1%
  • Croatian1.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian2,104,60498%
English15,3581%
German4,4721%
Spanish2,3791%
Croatian1,6511%

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◐

Katalin is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name2.3K records spelled Katalin23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Romania, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Catalin, Cătălin, Kátalin, Каталин, Cǎtǎlin

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Katalin2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Katalín

  • Ukrainian given name1.1K records spelled Katalin9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Каталін, Каталин, Kătălin

  • Romanian given name343 records spelled Katalin2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Kătălin

42 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●

Katalin is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Katalin är en ungersk form av → Katarina.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, im 20. Jh. entlehnter weibl. Vom., ungarische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Finnish, superlative degree of katala

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, ‘Catherine’ (proper name)

    as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

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●

010203019601970198019902000201023 · 1988

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Katalin in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1957–2014
Yearrecords
19576
195813
19596
19606
19627
19638
19658
19675
19685
19706
19726
19765
19797
19806
19816
19825
19837
19845
198511
198615
198711
198823
198910
199012
199116
199212
199314
199419
19959
19967
199712
199814
19998
20009
20016
200315
200510
200610
20079
20086
20097
20107
20125
20146

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1957–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Catherine of Hungary, Queen of Serbia, b. 1256Catherine of Poděbrady, b. 1449Catherine Telegdi, b. 1492Katharina von Brandenburg, b. 1602Katalin Karády, b. 1910Katalin Szőke, b. 1935Katalin Karikó, b. 1955Bogyay Katalin, b. 1956Ecaterina Szabo, b. 1968Katalin Novák, b. 1977

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 53 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Katalin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)2025165K#3
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#9,084
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—713#2,152
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—456#4,881
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020453—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—419#2,404
HU Hungarymagyarnevek — given names by decade1997363#38
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—356#3,160
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—175#1,110
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026175#1,110
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—163#3,947
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—159#4,156

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Katalin?
We estimate roughly 168 thousand people bear Katalin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Katalin have the most bearers?
We estimate about 165 thousand people bear Katalin in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled katalin.
Where is Katalin most common?
Katalin is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 people carrying it.
How common is Katalin compared with other names?
In Hungary, Katalin is the 12th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
Is Katalin a male or female name?
Katalin 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 Katalin mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine or Katherine
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Katalin” — the 12th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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