Katalina

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 15 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◐

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

• English given name7.0K records spelled Katalina11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Kätälïna, Kätälïnä, Katalinâ, Kătălina, Kataliná

• Russian given name590 records spelled Katalina18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh

  Also written Каталина, Каталіна, Catalina, Cătălina, Kâtâlînâ

• Croatian given name485 records spelled Katalina25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Bulgaria, Croatia

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Catalina, Каталина, Cătălina, Cataliną, Čätälïnä

• Indonesian given name263 records spelled Katalina3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Tanzania, United States, Spain, Indonesia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Kàtàlinà

43 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●

Katalina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Basque, Rueda catalina. [Kataia] kataliñan ezarteko, jatsi zan Nikanor . Erkiag BatB 86.

  as a word·Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 50 years between 1952–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Katarine Eleizegib. 1889ESnot in their usual nameBasque writer (1889-1963)
• Katalina Verdinb. 1975MXMexican model
• Katalina Sharkey de Solisb. 1981USAmerican digital fashion editor
• Katalina Amosab. 2001AUAustralian rugby union 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 · 389 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Katalina?

We estimate roughly 5.2 thousand people bear Katalina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Katalina have the most bearers?

Katalina is most frequently recorded in Chile, where it is most often spelled katalina.

How common is Katalina compared with other names?

In Chile, Katalina is the 578th most common given name of 68,927 given names recorded there.

Is Katalina a male or female name?

Katalina 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.