Ekaterina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: "clean"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ekaterina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 992(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 14K
- BYBelarus≈1 in 41as Екатерина
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ekaterina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #18 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 624 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 992 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600,000 named Екатерина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Екатерина in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more, Catherine in US United States, Катерина in UA Ukraine and Ekaterine in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Russian form of Catherine; from Greek, meaning uncertain
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ekaterina is read(measured from records)
Ekaterina is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian76%
"clean."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- English5.1%
Russian form of Catherine; from Greek, meaning uncertain
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A transliteration of the Russian or Serbo-Croatian female given name Екатерина (Jekaterina), equivalent to Catherine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
pers. name (E. Gordeeva)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ekaterina 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #16 | ≈2,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 54 | #13 | Екатерина | 287 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 668 | — | Екатерина | 76 |
| UA Ukraine | #25 | ≈550,000 est. | ≈1 in 79 | listed | Катерина | 160 |
| US United States | #29 | 470,588as Katherine | 1 in 707 | 470K | Catherine | 624 |
| FR France | — | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 264 | 395K | Ekaterine | 80 |
| CZ Czechia | #503 | 236,254as Kateřina | 1 in 45 | 236K | Ekaterina | 62 |
| BY Belarus | #14 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 41 | 16 | Екатерина | 70 |
| MD Moldova | #444 | 43,869as Ecaterina | 1 in 77 | 44K | Ekaterina | 31 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #36 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 992 | — | Екатерина | 40 |
| ES Spain | #372 | 3,513 | 1 in 14K | 79K | Katherine | 135 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ekaterina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Ekaterina är en grekisk form av → Katarina.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., transliterierte (buch stabengetreue) Form von russisch
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Catherine I of Russiab. 1684RUThe first Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727
- Catherine II of Russiab. 1729RUeighth Emperor of Russia, called the Great, r. 1762–1796 (lived 1729-1796)
- Catherine Breshkovskyb. 1844USRussian politician (1844–1934)
- Katharine Worsleyb. 1933GBnot in their usual namemember of the British royal family (1933–2025)
- Marina Vladyb. 1938FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress, singer, and writer
- Katya Lychevab. 1974FRnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Klimovab. 1978RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Ekaterina Vilkovab. 1984RURussian actress
- Katerina Shpitsab. 1985RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Katerina Tikhonovab. 1986RUnot in their usual namesecond child and daughter of Vladimir Putin
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.3K | #3,363 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.5K | #1,162 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.6K | #731 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 512 | #458 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 64 | #1,683 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 32 | #1,565 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #3,363 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2017 | — | #244 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ekaterina come from?
- Russian form of Catherine; from Greek, meaning uncertain Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Ekaterina?
- In the etymology graph, Kathleen, Catherine and Katherine are forms of the same name in other languages; Katia, Katerina and Katya are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Ekaterina mean?
- In Russian, "clean."
- Is Ekaterina a male or female name?
- Ekaterina 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.
- In which country does Ekaterina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 million people named Екатерина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ekaterina?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,513 people named Ekaterina, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Ekaterina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ekaterina is the 16th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ekaterinaThe 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, “Ekaterina” — the 16th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.