Katariina

given name · Finnish · Latin script

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

Katariina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is the 82nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 12 countries

#911 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
278 ●

568K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 75 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

CatarinaLatin · Portuguese●1M records
КатаринаCyrillic · Russian●12K records
ᲙატარინაGeorgian · Georgian●36 records
카타리나Hangul · Korean●14 records
ΚαταριναGreek · Greek●1 records
ԿատարինաArmenian · Armenian●0 records

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 Catharina in NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa.

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

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 Katariina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#82280,947244K rec.—2Katharina257
NL Netherlands#11231,454△4K rec.1 in 75231KCatharina77
AT Austria#24104,94712K rec.—27KKatharina151
BR Brazil#44171,392△17K rec.1 in 3K71KCatarina156
SE Sweden#4248,882△21K rec.1 in 20949KKatarina122
FI Finland#4948,237△2.1K rec.1 in 11659KKatariina71
PT Portugal#3446,70220K rec.—listedCatarina189
HR Croatia#1728,61880K rec.1 in 14829KKatarina125
MX Mexico#82926,27233K rec.—62Catarina59
RS Serbia#4114,8206.9K rec.—listedKatarina82
ZA South Africa#27811,57112K rec.——Catharina48
RU Russia—10,5815.3K rec.—#558Катарина113

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish228K99%
  • English7851%
  • Estonian4591%
  • German1961%
  • Spanish1941%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish227,92299%
English7851%
Estonian4591%
German1961%
Spanish1941%

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◐

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

  • French given name296 records spelled Katariina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland

    Also written Kàtàriina

  • Czech given name48 records spelled Katariina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Kataríina

33 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.

Over time●

05010015020020002005201020152020169 · 2015

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Katariina in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999141
2000152
2001153
2002150
2003151
2004152
2005153
2006155
2007155
2008160
2009159
2010162
2011165
2012163
2013165
2014162
2015169
2016167
2017165
2018164
2019161
2020159

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Nadja Pyykkö, b. 1946Katariina Lahti, b. 1949Katariina Kuisma, b. 1963Katariina Kaitue, b. 1967Katariina Souri, b. 1968Katariina Unt, b. 1971Hanna Mäntylä, b. 1974Iina Kuustonen, b. 1984Emmi Parviainen, b. 1985Katariina Tuohimaa, b. 1988

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 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Katariina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—59K#43
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—48K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1K#1,698
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—334#364
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015169—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016167—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017165—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013165—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2011165—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018164—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012163—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014162—

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Katariina?
We estimate roughly 453 thousand people bear Katariina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Katariina have the most bearers?
Katariina is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled katharina.
Where is Katariina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katariina is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 75 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is Katariina compared with other names?
In Germany, Katariina is the 82nd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Katariina a male or female name?
Katariina 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 Katariina mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine
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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, “Katariina” — the 82nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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