Katya

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Katia in BR Brazil, US United States, PE Peru and 14 more, Katja in DE Germany, FI Finland, DK Denmark and 7 more and קטיה in FR France, IL Israel.

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 17 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◐

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

• English given name35K records spelled Katya22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ka'Tya, Kátya, Kätyä, Kâtyä, Katýà

• Russian given name21K records spelled Katya94 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia

  Languages: Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian

  Also written Катя, Katja, Katia, Катја, Катья

• French given name5.9K records spelled Katya7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Katyà, Kátya, Kâtÿa, Kàtyà, Kătya

• a separate given name1.5K records spelled Katya3 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Kátya, Kātyā

51 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●

Katya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, equivalent to English Kate.

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

• a Rsi of the Tamasa Manvantara (P)

  as a name·Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

• Kali (N)

  as a name·Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

• Pet form of YEKATERINA.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• Russian: pet form of YEKATARINA , now sometimes used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world.

  as a word

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 72 years between 1948–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Katya Paskalevab. 1945BGBulgarian actress
• Katya Wyethb. 1948USAmerican actress
• Katya Bergerb. 1966DEGerman actress
• Katya Adlerb. 1972GBBritish journalist
• Катя Chillyb. 1978UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian singer
• Katya Zharkovab. 1981BYmodel
• Katya Virshilasb. 1983CACanadian actress
• Katya Cloverb. 1989RURussian pornographic actress
• Katya Sambucab. 1991RURussian actor, singer and model (born 1991)
• Katya Ishutinamusician

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 · 527 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Katya?

We estimate roughly 243 thousand people bear Katya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Katya have the most bearers?

Katya is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled katja.

Where is Katya most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katya is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 244 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.

How common is Katya compared with other names?

In Germany, Katya is the 138th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.

Is Katya a male or female name?

Katya 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 Katya mean?

Recorded meaning: 2 Russian pet form of Yekaterina ‘Katherine’, now sometimes used as a given name in the English-speaking world.