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Katina

Feminine · “pure”

Katina is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 11,306 girls against 34 boys since 1880.

1920high 1972
Rare todaygiven to only a few children a year
rare

Katina is Greek Katerina with the middle taken out — the ordinary Greek familiar form, carried into American English by Greek families and then adopted well beyond them.

How old is the name Katina?

Katina first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. The typical Katina alive today was born around 1972, making them about 53 years old. About 10,500 people named Katina are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Katina most popular?

Katina peaked in 1972, reaching #117 nationally. See the whole 1972 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Katina

Aikaterine was the name of the Alexandrian scholar-martyr whose legend spread across Europe, and Greek kept it as Aikaterini and Katerina. Greek familiar forms work by contraction — Katina from Katerina, Dina from Konstantina — and these traveled with Greek emigration to America in the early twentieth century. Katina moved outside Greek-American communities in the 1960s and reached its American peak in the early 1970s.

Meaningscholars disagree

pure

Through Aikaterine, whose received meaning is the Greek katharos, 'pure'. That reading came later than the name: the earliest form is not explained by katharos, and the spelling was reshaped toward it under the influence of the saint's legend. The original sense is not recovered.

How the name formed

  1. Aikaterine
  2. Katerina
  3. Katina

Related forms: Κατίνα · Κατερίνα · Caterina · Katya

Pronouncing Katina

kuh-TEE-nuh

Three syllables, stress in the middle. Greek speakers place the stress the same way.

Nicknames for Katina

Moderate

KatThe front clipping, sharp and shared across the whole Catherine family
TinaThe back half alone, and a name in its own right for a century
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1920–20253k137402,7471019202024

US babies named Katina per year from 1920 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#1171920s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1920
Most girls named
19722,747 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#117reached in 1972
Change vs 2021
−9.1%10 in 2024, from 11
Katina sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1972, with 2,747 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Katina in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Κατίνα in Greek — transliteration
  • Κατερίνα in Greek — related form
  • Caterina in Italian — related form
  • Katya in Russian — related form

Katinas among us

10,500

people named Katina are estimated to be alive in the US today

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

Fashion outlook

Katina has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.

Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • A genuine Greek familiar form, not an American respelling of one.
  • It sits inside one of the largest name families in Europe while sounding like none of the others.
  • Kat and Tina are both available and pull in opposite directions.
What to consider
  • The meaning of the parent name is not actually recovered, whatever the standard reading says.
  • In American records the name is closely tied to the 1970s.

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Frequently asked

How many Katinas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,500 people named Katina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Katina in 2025?
Katina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
Will my child share the name Katina with classmates?
Katina will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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