Catalina

What Catalina means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #325 in 2015, #111 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Catalina?

US: Rising: up from #325 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1649 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 2,456 girls got the name (#111 that year). First in the US records in 1893.

How common

• About 1 in 654 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 16,885 baby girls in England and Wales 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 NV (4.13 per 1,000 girls), TX (3.87 per 1,000 girls), CA (3.52 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Catalina is #111 in the US and #1892 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 Catalina were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Katalina720 US
• Katalyna42 US
• Catalyna23 US
• Katalena15 US
• Catalena7 US
• Catelina5 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 Catalina

Girls

• Elena#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #106 in 2015, #42 in 2025. 5 letters, starting with a vowel
• Alessia#326Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1967, with 9 babies
• Gemma#170“jewel”^*
• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*
• Luciana#273Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #273 vs #1,809 in 2025
• Ramona#733Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1928, with 2,239 babies; 373 in 2025

For a brother

• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*
• Vincenzo#674Italian form of Vincent, meaning “conquering”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*
• Franco#746Editor’s note Up from #873 in 2015 to #746 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Catalina’s. Rank is US 2025.