Katrin

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Catherine in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 6 more, Екатерина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more, Katherine in PE Peru, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and 1 more and Katarzyna in PL Poland, SE Sweden.

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●

Attested across 16 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◐

Katrin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Estonian given name23K records spelled Katrin8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian

  Also written Kätrin, Katrín, Kãtrin

• a separate given name3.2K records spelled Katrin4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Estonia, United Kingdom

  Also written Katrín, Kātrīn, Kätrin

• a separate given name390 records spelled Katrin3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Switzerland

  Also written Kätrîñ, Katrín

52 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●

Katrin 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, Katrin (m.fl. former) kan vara en försvenskning av den franska formen Cathérine som i sin tur är en form av → Katarina. Catherine är en engelsk form. Formerna Katrin och Katrine (den senare vanligare i Danmark och Norge idag) fanns redan under medeltiden i Sverige och kan vara lokala utvecklingar av Katarina.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Estonian, a female given name, variant of Katariina (“Catherine”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, a female given name, a short form of Katarina

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Finnish, genitive singular of Katri

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 73 years between 1951–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Katrin Sassb. 1956DEGerman actress
• Katrin Cartlidgeb. 1961GBEnglish actress (1961-2002)
• Katrin Dörre-Heinigb. 1961DEEast German athlete
• Katrin Lompscherb. 1962DEGerman politician
• Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttirb. 1965ISIcelandic politician
• Katrin Göring-Eckardtb. 1966DEGerman politician
• Katrin Himmlerb. 1967DEGerman writer and the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler
• Katrin Krabbeb. 1969DEGerman sprinter
• Katrín Jakobsdóttirb. 1976IS28th Prime Minister of Iceland
• Katrin Bühringb. 1977DEGerman actress

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 · 524 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Katrin?

We estimate roughly 2.1 million people bear Katrin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Katrin have the most bearers?

Katrin is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled екатерина.

Where is Katrin most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katrin is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 45 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Katrin compared with other names?

In Russia, Katrin is the 16th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Katrin a male or female name?

Katrin 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 Katrin mean?

Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Katharina