Catharina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɐtɐɾinɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Catharina 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. In Portuguese, recorded as archaic spelling of Catarina.
- NLNetherlands1 in 71(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 115as Katariina
- HRCroatia1 in 148as Katarina
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 Catharina 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 71 (inferred from the name graph)
242,061 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
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, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Catharina is read(measured from records)
Catharina is one spelling over 5 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.
- Portuguese28%
archaic spelling of Catarina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Catharina in English.
- German16%
a female given name, a less common variant of Katharina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Catharina in Dutch.
- Swedish7.2%
a female given name, a less common spelling of Katarina
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)
Catharina 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 | 242,061 | 1 in 71 | 231K | Catharina | 89 |
| DE Germany | #79 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 510 | 2 | Katharina | 271 |
| BR Brazil | — | 71,392as Catarina | 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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Catherine of Gueldersb. 1439DEnot in their usual nameDutch nobler (1439-1497)
- Catarina van Hemessenb. 1528BEnot in their usual nameFlemish Renaissance painter
- Catherine Stenbockb. 1535SEnot in their usual nameQueen Consort of Sweden (1535-1621)
- Catherine Vasa of Swedenb. 1539SEnot in their usual nameRegent of East Frisia; Swedish princess, writer
- Catharine of Nassau-Dillenburgb. 1543DEnot in their usual nameGerman nobleman (1543–1624)
- Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassaub. 1578BECountess of Orange-Nassau by birth and by marriage Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg (1578-1648)
- Catharina Dorothea Bachb. 1708DEfirst child of Johann Sebastian Bach and of Bach's first wife, Maria Barbara (1708-1774)
- Catharina Loddersb. 1942NLDutch beauty pageant contestant
- Tintin Anderzonb. 1964SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orangeb. 2003NLheir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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 54 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Catharina mean?
- In Portuguese, archaic spelling of Catarina
- How do you pronounce Catharina?
- A machine transcription gives /kɐtɐɾinɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Catharina a male or female name?
- Catharina 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.
- In which country does Catharina 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 it is most often spelled catharina.
- Where is Catharina most common?
- Catharina is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 71 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Catharina?
- In the etymology graph, Kathleen, Catherine and Katherine are forms of the same name in other languages; Rina, Karin and Kai are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Catharina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 242,061 people named Catharina, about 1 in 71 residents.
- How common is Catharina compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Catharina is the 338th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Catharina?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/catharinaThe 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, “Catharina” — the 338th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.