Katla
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Katla is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Telugu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Icelandic Katla, from ketill (“kettle”).
- INIndia1 in 219K◐
- NONorway1 in 65K
- AUAustralia1 in 3.1M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
- IcelandicKatla●
- Icelandic rootketill“kettle”●
From Icelandic Katla, from ketill (“kettle”).
Sources 2
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| IN India | 9,375 | 93% |
| US United States | 267 | 3% |
| NO Norway | 230 | 2% |
| PL Poland | 33 | 1% |
| AU Australia | 27 | 1% |
≈9,932 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi7.8K77%
- Telugu8659%
- English3574%
- 2112%
- Norwegian Bokmål1582%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 7,776 | 77% |
| Telugu | 865 | 9% |
| English | 357 | 4% |
| 211 | 2% | |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 158 | 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●
Katla is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, Katla (a volcano in the south of Iceland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lti, itch
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 15 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 21 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 25 |
| 2016 | 28 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 31 |
| 2020 | 35 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 18 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●
- Katla Maríab. 1969ISIcelandic-Spanish singer
- Katla María Magnúsdóttirb. 2001ISIcelandic handball player
- Katla Njálsdóttiractress
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 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 865 | #4,414 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 797 | #6,496 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 775 | #192 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 535 | #83 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 158 | #10,070 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 92 | #8,180 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 83 | #9,716 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 77 | #1,918 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 29 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 87 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Katla?
- Our records include 9,932 bearers of Katla across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Katla have the most bearers?
- Katla is most frequently recorded in India.
- What does the name Katla mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Icelandic Katla, from ketill (“kettle”).
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Katla”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.