Catherina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑθɝˈinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Catherina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 285K
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Catherina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Catherina | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,880 | 1 in 4.5K | 3.7K | Catherina | 33 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 122K | listed | Catherina | 54 |
| US United States | — | 1,169 | 1 in 285K | 1.2K | Catherina | 215 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Catherina | 7 |
| IE Ireland | #887 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Catherina | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 56 | 1 in 60K | 56 | — | — |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the id-github-names register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Catherina van Hollandb. 1280Dutch noble
- Katharina Fuggerb. 1532not in their usual nameGerman countess
- Elisabeth Heveliusb. 1647PLnot in their usual nameastronomer
- Catherina Dawson Gilesb. 1878GBBritish painter (1878-1955)
- Martine Bijlb. 1948NLnot in their usual nameDutch singer, translator, television actor, writer, presenter and cabaret artist (1948–2019)
- Catherina Cardozob. 1966VEVenezuelan actor
- Catherina McKiernanb. 1969IEIrish long-distance runner
- Catherina Ruffing-Bernadotteb. 1977DEGerman landscape architect
- Catherina Martínezb. 1978ESSpanish voice actress
- Olivia Merryb. 1992NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand field hockey 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 55 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 3.7K | #527 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #11,131 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 173 | #3,153 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 56 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 54 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1999 | 1 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
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 Catherina?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑθɝˈinə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Catherina a male or female name?
- Catherina 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 Catherina?
- In the etymology graph, Kathleen, Catherine and Katherine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Catherina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Catherina in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled catherina.
- Where is Catherina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Catherina is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Catherina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,880 people named Catherina, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Catherina compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Catherina is the 887th most common given name of 14,976 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/catherinaThe 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, “Catherina” — the 887th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.