Catalina
For 2025 the count puts Catalina at #111 nationwide, and gathering speed. Its record runs from 1893 through a 2025 peak, 33,009 children in all.
What Catalina carries
Catalina · Greek
“purer”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Catalina’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Catalina, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Catalina since 1893
Catalina is at its all-time peak right now: #111 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Catalina is most common
The state that gives Catalina most often, per girls born there, is Nevada (0.41% in 2025); Texas and California are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Catalina
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Anastasia
#163 in 2025 · Greek
Penelope
#22 in 2025 · Greek
Damian
#109 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
Myles
#100 in 2025 · Greek
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
Browse: names starting with C · Greek names · all names
About Catalina
How popular is the name Catalina?
For 2025 the count puts Catalina at #111 nationwide, and gathering speed. The chart above draws the whole run since 1893, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Catalina have a meaning on record?
“purer” is the meaning our source sets down, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Catalina?
The recipe puts Cora first, then Penelope, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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