Katin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of Cat, a short form of Catharine, Cat-in; first attested Richard, Walter Catin 1177, 1200 P (Wa)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kətɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Katin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 78Kas Катин(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 1.5M
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
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 Katin 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Катин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Катин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more and Катін in UA Ukraine.
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 diminutive of Cat, a short form of Catharine, Cat-in; first attested Richard, Walter Catin 1177, 1200 P (Wa).
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Katin 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 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Катин | 116 |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 156 | Katin | 9 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 523K | — | Катін | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 523K | — | Катин | 23 |
| BY Belarus | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Катин | 8 |
| PL Poland | 26 | 1 in 1.5M | 17 | Katin | 5 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Катин | 7 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Katin 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.
In English, relationship name from the Middle English female personal name Catin, a diminutive of Cat (a short form of Cateline, i.e. Catharine, see Catlin ).
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
In Finnish, genitive singular of katti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mh, carton
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tgt, salt
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Serbo-Croatian, 1° lonac, 2° lavor
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Peter Katinb. 1930GBBritish pianist and pedagogue (1930–2015)
- Miriam Katinb. 1942USHungarian-born American graphic novelist and graphic artist (b. 1942)
- Lena Katinab. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer, member of the duo t.A.T.u
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17 | #98,713 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #142,511 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
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 does the name Katin mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of Cat, a short form of Catharine, Cat-in; first attested Richard, Walter Catin 1177, 1200 P (Wa). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Katin?
- A machine transcription gives /kətɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Katin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Катин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Katin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katin is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Katin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 154 people named Katin in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/katinThe 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, “Katin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.