Katniss
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sagittaria spp., herbaceous perennial flowering plants that grow in water
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kətnɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Katniss is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5M (inferred from the name graph)
32 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sagittaria spp., herbaceous perennial flowering plants that grow in water.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Katniss, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Katniss counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
32 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the mx-cdmx-nombres register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 32 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #90,373 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #34,383 |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2014 | 5 | — |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2013 | 4 | — |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2016 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2021 | 2 | #5,037 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2016 | 2 | #5,639 |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2021 | 1 | — |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2012 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Katniss mean, and where does it come from?
- Sagittaria spp., herbaceous perennial flowering plants that grow in water. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Katniss a male or female name?
- Katniss 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.
- How do you pronounce Katniss?
- A machine transcription gives /kətnɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Katniss have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 32 people named Katniss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katniss.
- Where is Katniss most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katniss is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 3.5 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Katniss?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 32 people named Katniss in 2022, about 1 in 6.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Katniss?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/katnissThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Katniss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.