Katarina

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Croatian: a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ka˨˦t̪arina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Katarina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Croatia it is the 16th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 148(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 208
  • SESweden1 in 209

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 Katarina 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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

242,061 named Catharina

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
334 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 148 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KatharinaLatin(measured from records)
КатаринаCyrillic(measured from records)
ԿատարինաArmenian(measured from records)
카타리나Hangul(measured from records)
ΚαταριναGreek(measured from records)
კატარინაGeorgian(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Katharina in DE Germany, Catharina in NL Netherlands, Catarina in BR Brazil and Katariina in FI Finland.

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)

a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Katarina is read(measured from records)

Katarina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Croatian41%

    a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine

    as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English16%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Katarina in English.

  • Swedish10%

    a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Catherine

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German5.9%

    a female given name, a less common variant of Katharina

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

Katarina 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.

Where Katarina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#338242,061as Catharina1 in 71231KCatharina89
DE Germany#79≈160,000 est.≈1 in 510listedKatharina271
BR Brazil—71,392as Catarina1 in 3K71KCatarina156
SE Sweden#5248,8821 in 20949KKatarina148
FI Finland#89148,244as Katariina1 in 11559KKatariina89
RS Serbia#40≈34,000 est.≈1 in 208listedKatarina79
HR Croatia#1628,6181 in 14829KKatarina129

242,061 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Katarina is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Serbia

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Katarína

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland, United States, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Katarína

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Sweden

    Also written Katarína, Kàtàrinà, Katarinã, Katarīna, Kãtârìñã

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Katarina, Katarína

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Katarína

  • a separate given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Serbia, Norway

    Also written Katarína, Kâtârînâ

  • Lithuanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Sweden, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Katarína

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Katarina 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.

  • Swedish form of KATHERINE . Pet forms: Kata, Kajsa .

    as a word

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1940196019802000Katarina Frostenson, b. 1953Katarina Witt, b. 1965Katarina Barley, b. 1968Katarina Žutić, b. 1972Katarina Kresal, b. 1973Katarina Čas, b. 1976Katarina Srebotnik, b. 1981Amelia Andersdotter, b. 1987Katarina Ivanovska, b. 1988Katarina Johnson-Thompson, b. 1993

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)

InformalBok Katarina,Hi Katarina, (English)

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 80 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Katarina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—49K#80
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202129K#17
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202123K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202018K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—9.4K#221
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20227.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—7.1K#2,146
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.9K#3,898
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.4K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—287#4,443
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—37#2,146

Reference works 3

  • 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

How do you pronounce Katarina?
A machine transcription gives /ka˨˦t̪arina/ (IPA) for Croatian.
What does the name Katarina mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Katarina?
In the etymology graph, Kathleen, Catherine and Katherine are forms of the same name in other languages; Karen, Kari and Kai are recorded short or pet forms.
In which country does Katarina have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 242 thousand people named Catharina, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Katarina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katarina is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 148 people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
Is Katarina a male or female name?
Katarina 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 Katarina?
In Sweden, the national register counted 48,882 people named Katarina, about 1 in 209 residents.
How common is Katarina compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Katarina is the 338th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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, “Katarina” — the 338th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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