Katalyna
Feminine
Katalyna is a respelling of Catalina, the Spanish form of Katherine — a name in constant European use for seventeen hundred years and with no established meaning at all.
How old is the name Katalyna?
Katalyna first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Katalyna is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Katalyna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Katalyna most popular?
Katalyna peaked in 2023, reaching #2936 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 641 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
Where it comes from
From Aikaterine to Katalyna
The story of Katalyna
Aikaterine belonged to a fourth-century martyr of Alexandria whose cult spread across Christendom. Spain made Catalina of it, and a Californian island and a mountain range in Arizona both carry the name from Spanish missions. Katalyna is a modern American respelling that swaps the C for a K and the i for a y, changing the look while keeping every sound.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Greek Aikaterine is of unknown origin. The connection to katharos, pure, is a later Christian reinterpretation that changed the spelling; what the name meant before is not recoverable. Catalina carries the same uncertainty.
How the name formed
- Aikaterine
- Catalina
- Katalyna
Related forms: Catalina · Katalin · Katherine
Pronouncing Katalyna
kah-tah-LEE-nah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Identical in sound to Catalina.
Nicknames for Katalyna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 202357 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2936reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +27.3%42 in 2025, from 33
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Katalyna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Catalina in Spanish — spelling variant
- Katalin in Hungarian — same name
- Katherine in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Katalynas among us
people named Katalyna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Katalyna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Katalyna
- #3577
- Katalyna on the 2025 chart
- #89
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Katalyna went to 42 girls in 2025, but Catalina, Katalina and Catalyna are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 3,241, which makes it the 89th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,488 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 496 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 38,268 for Katalyna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Raena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Katalyna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Raena climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Raena's path sketches the road Katalyna is walking now.
Katalyna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Katalyna is headed
Katalyna should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Katalyna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Katalyna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One of the longest continuous records any European name can show stands behind it.
- Kata, Lina and Kat are all usable short forms.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- Catalina is the standard spelling and will be written for her constantly.
- Nine letters and four syllables is a great deal for early handwriting.
- The meaning is genuinely unknown despite the name's age and fame.
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Frequently asked
- How many Katalynas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Katalyna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Katalyna?
- Katalyna is one of 4 recorded spellings. Catalina is the more common one — 2,456 births in 2025 against 42 for Katalyna.
- How popular is the name Katalyna in 2025?
- Katalyna ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Katalyna?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Katalyna — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Katalyna with classmates?
- Katalyna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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