Katherina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kateɾina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Katherina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 181K
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Katherina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Katherina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 11 | Katherina | 50 |
| US United States | — | 1,838 | 1 in 181K | 1.8K | Katherina | 88 |
| CL Chile | #960 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 7 | Katherina | 58 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Katherina | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 524 | 1 in 33K | 503 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 111 | — | — |
| PA Panama | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Katherina | 20 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
- Katharina von Nürnbergb. 1323not in their usual name(1323-1373)
- Katherine of Bavariab. 1361NLnot in their usual nameMedieval noblewomen (14th century)
- Princess Katharina of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürstb. 1817DEnot in their usual nameGerman princess (1817–1893)
- Susanne Langerb. 1895USnot in their usual nameAmerican philosopher (1895–1985)
- Ruth Pfaub. 1929DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Pakistani physician and Catholic nun (1929–2017)
- Catherine Schellb. 1944HUnot in their usual nameHungarian–British actress
- Kathy Vivasb. 1972VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan astrophysicist
- Katherina Reicheb. 1973DEGerman politician
- Katherina Ungerb. 1997DEGerman actress
- Catherine of Nassau-BeilsteinDEnot in their usual nameCountess consort and later regent of Hanau
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 52 sources across 29 countries.
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 Katherina?
- A machine transcription gives /kateɾina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Katherina?
- In the etymology graph, Kathleen, Catherine and Katherine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Katherina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Katherina in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katherina.
- Is Katherina a male or female name?
- Katherina 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.
- How common is the name Katherina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,838 people named Katherina in 2020, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
- How common is Katherina compared with other names?
- In Chile, Katherina is the 960th most common given name of 70,478 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Katherina?
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/katherinaThe 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, “Katherina” — the 960th most common given name in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.