Katryna
Feminine
Katryna is a respelling of a name that most Americans now associate with a storm, and the association is an accident of a naming system that was itself argued over for decades.
How old is the name Katryna?
Katryna first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Katryna alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 800 people named Katryna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Katryna most popular?
Katryna peaked in 1992, reaching #2650 nationally. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aikaterine to Katryna
The story of Katryna
Hurricanes were given only women's names for about thirty years, on a convention borrowed from a wartime forecasting habit and formalized in the fifties. It was criticized from the start and steadily more loudly, on the grounds that assigning destructive weather exclusively to women's names was doing something unpleasant in public every season, and in the late seventies the lists were changed to alternate men's and women's names. Names of storms that cause enough damage are retired permanently, which means a handful of ordinary names have been quietly taken out of circulation by committee.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Greek name behind the whole family has never been explained; the reading of pure was attached to it centuries after it was in use. The y and the altered ending in this spelling carry nothing of their own.
How the name formed
- Aikaterine
- Katrina
- Katryna
Related forms: Katrin · Katerina
Pronouncing Katryna
kuh-TREE-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The y is said as a long e.
Nicknames for Katryna
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 199246 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2650reached in 1992
- Change vs 2017
- 0.0%5 in 2018, from 5
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.
Katryna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Katrin in German — related form
- Katerina in Russian — related form
Katrynas among us
people named Katryna are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Katryna sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is read correctly on sight in spite of the spelling.
- The middle stress carries well.
- It has short forms in several languages.
- Katrina is the standard spelling and hers will be corrected to it.
- The storm association is strong for anyone who remembers it.
- The meaning of the name behind it has never been established.
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Frequently asked
- How many Katrynas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Katryna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Katryna in 2025?
- Katryna is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Katryna with classmates?
- Katryna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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