Cataleya

What Cataleya means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Cataleya yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #437 in 2015 to #237 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Cataleya?

US: Rising: up from #437 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1324 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,314 girls got the name (#237 that year). First in the US records in 2011.

How common

• About 1 in 1,223 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,206 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (3.85 per 1,000 girls), AZ (2.2 per 1,000 girls), NV (1.96 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Cataleya is #237 in the US and #509 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Cataleya were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kataleya674 US · 13 E&W
• Cattaleya145 US
• Catalaya43 US
• Kataleyah33 US
• Kattaleya33 US
• Katalaya28 US
• Cataleyah16 US
• Kataleiya6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Cataleya

Girls

• Rosalie#171“rose”^*
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Oaklynn#153Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #153 vs #4,867 in 2025
• Noelle#202Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #202 vs #705 in 2025
• Elowyn#299Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,619 in 2015, #299 in 2025

For a brother

• Kyrie#244Editor’s note Up from #333 in 2015 to #244 in 2025 in the US
• Weston#55Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #120 in 2015, #55 in 2025
• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*
• Dean#125“valley”^*
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Harvey#251“iron + blazing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Cataleya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.