Katrin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Katharina
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Katrin 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.
- DEGermany≈1 in 586(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 41as Екатерина
- CZCzechia1 in 45as Kateřina
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 Katrin 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 586 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600,000 named Екатерина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Екатерина in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Ekaterina in CZ Czechia, MD Moldova, Catherine in US United States and Катерина 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 the female given name Katharina
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Katrin 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 |
| DE Germany | #40 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 586 | listed | Katrin | 250 |
| MD Moldova | #444 | 43,869as Ecaterina | 1 in 77 | 44K | Ekaterina | 31 |
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; 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)
Katrin is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Katrin (m.fl. former) kan vara en försvenskning av den franska formen Cathérine som i sin tur är en form av → Katarina. Catherine är en engelsk form. Formerna Katrin och Katrine (den senare vanligare i Danmark och Norge idag) fanns redan under medeltiden i Sverige och kan vara lokala utvecklingar av Katarina.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Estonian, a female given name, variant of Katariina (“Catherine”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a female given name, a short form of Katarina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of Katri
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Katrin Sassb. 1956DEGerman actress
- Katrin Cartlidgeb. 1961GBEnglish actress (1961-2002)
- Katrin Dörre-Heinigb. 1961DEEast German athlete
- Katrin Lompscherb. 1962DEGerman politician
- Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttirb. 1965ISIcelandic politician
- Katrin Göring-Eckardtb. 1966DEGerman politician
- Katrin Himmlerb. 1967DEGerman writer and the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler
- Katrin Krabbeb. 1969DEGerman sprinter
- Katrín Jakobsdóttirb. 1976IS28th Prime Minister of Iceland
- Katrin Bühringb. 1977DEGerman actress
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 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #7,202 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.3K | #435 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 640 | #485 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 640 | #478 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 29 | #1,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #7,202 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2019 | — | #249 |
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
- What does the name Katrin mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Katharina Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Katrin a male or female name?
- Katrin 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.
- What are other forms of the name Katrin?
- In the etymology graph, Kathleen, Catherine and Katherine are forms of the same name in other languages; Kai, Kathrin and Kaja are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Katrin 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 Katrin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 470,588 people named Katherine in 2020, about 1 in 707 residents.
- How common is Katrin compared with other names?
- In Russia, Katrin is the 16th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/katrinThe 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, “Katrin” — the 16th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.