Kata
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Kata, a vernacular short foim of the female personal name Catherine (Polish Katarzyna, Hungarian Katalin)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kat̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kata is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 187(measured from records)
- HUHungary≈1 in 1.1K
- SISlovenia1 in 5.5K
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 Kata 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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 187 (inferred from the name graph)
22,615 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ката in MK North Macedonia.
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)
from Kata, a vernacular short foim of the female personal name Catherine (Polish Katarzyna, Hungarian Katalin).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kata 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.
22,615 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; magyarnevek — given names by decade; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Kata is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Rsi Kata Vaisvamitra (V)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Serbo-Croatian, svaki
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Hindu name of unknown meaning.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Akan, V. [red. katakata] 1. to cover; often with 8 0> ho, anim: to overspread, red, envelop, enwrap, Infold; r/.dura ho; - k. mu, to line or finish the Inside of, = dura mu. — 2. to cover, conceal, cloak
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In men, v., to deal un- justly, to cheat, to wrong, unjust, to defraud, to deceive. Kafango, to be unjust, unfaithful. Kafa- wé, to practice, use deceit
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)
- Kata Bethlenb. 1700HUHungarian writer
- Kata Midorikawab. 1869JPJapanese nurse (1869–1962)
- Kata Dobób. 1974HUHungarian actress
- Kata Bartschb. 1979HUHungarian actress
- Kata Wéberb. 1980HUHungarian playwright and actress
- Kata Tüttőb. 1980HUHungarian politician
- Kata Losonczib. 1983HUHungarian actress
- Kata Gáspárb. 1987HUHungarian actress
- Kata Blanka Vasb. 2001HUHungarian cyclist
- Kata SarbóHUactress
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).
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 61 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 23K | #27 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 385 | #350 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 373 | #716 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 300 | #52 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2018 | 111 | #93 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 13 | #1,301 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 2 | #1,586 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What are other forms of the name Kata?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Kathleen and Catherine are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Katarina and Katalin.
- What does the name Kata mean, and where does it come from?
- from Kata, a vernacular short foim of the female personal name Catherine (Polish Katarzyna, Hungarian Katalin). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kata?
- A machine transcription gives /kat̪a/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Kata have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Kata, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kata.
- Where is Kata most common?
- Kata is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 187 people carrying it.
- Is Kata a male or female name?
- Kata 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 common is the name Kata?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 22,615 people named Kata in 2021, about 1 in 187 residents.
- How common is Kata compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Kata is the 13th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kataThe 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, “Kata” — the 13th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.