Catarina
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: ladybug, ladybird (insect of the family Coccinellidae)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/katarina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Catarina is a 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.
- BRBrazil1 in 3K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 71as Catharina
- FIFinland1 in 115as Katariina
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 Catarina 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)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
242,061 named Catharina
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Katarina in HR Croatia, SE Sweden, RS Serbia, Katharina in DE Germany, Catharina in NL Netherlands 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 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Catarina is read(measured from records)
Catarina 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.
- Spanish14%
ladybug, ladybird (insect of the family Coccinellidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese11%
a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Catarina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #338 | 242,061as Catharina | 1 in 71 | 231K | Catharina | 89 |
| DE Germany | #79 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 510 | listed | Katharina | 271 |
| BR Brazil | — | 71,392 | 1 in 3K | 71K | Catarina | 156 |
| SE Sweden | #52 | 48,882as Katarina | 1 in 209 | 49K | Katarina | 148 |
| FI Finland | #891 | 48,244as Katariina | 1 in 115 | 59K | Katariina | 89 |
| RS Serbia | #40 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 208 | listed | Katarina | 79 |
| HR Croatia | #16 | 28,618as Katarina | 1 in 148 | 29K | Katarina | 129 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Catarina 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 Italian, variante de Caterina
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Swedish, a female given name, a less common spelling of Katarina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, a female given name, a less common variant of Katharina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, Catherine
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)
- Catherine of Braganzab. 1638PTnot in their usual nameQueen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (1638–1705)
- Catarina Marques de Almeida Vaz Pintob. 1960PTPortuguese lawyer
- Catarina Lindqvistb. 1963SESwedish tennis player
- Catarina Lindgrenb. 1963SEfigure skater
- Pandorab. 1970SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer, recording artist, musician
- Catarina Furtadob. 1972PTPortuguese actress
- Catarina Martinsb. 1973PTPortuguese politician
- Catarina Wallensteinb. 1986PTPortuguese actress
- Catarina Costab. 1996PTPortuguese judoka
- Catarina Macariob. 1999BRAmerican soccer player
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 64 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 71K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 71K | #420 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 62K | #668 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9.4K | #415 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 4.6K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 775 | #906 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 604 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 408 | #2,329 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 360 | #420 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 107 | #7,714 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #27,528 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Catarina?
- A machine transcription gives /katarina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Catarina come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Catarina mean?
- In Spanish, ladybug, ladybird (insect of the family Coccinellidae)
- In which country does Catarina 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 Catarina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Catarina is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Catarina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 71,392 people named Catarina in 2022, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Catarina compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Catarina is the 338th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Catarina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/catarinaThe 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, “Catarina” — the 338th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.