Given name
Catia
“one who is pure; virginal”
Catia is a variant of Catherine. One English interpretation is “one who is pure; virginal.” Its derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Catia is a variant of Catherine. One English interpretation is “one who is pure; virginal.” Its derivation is not certain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Latin usage, Catia is a feminine form of Catius.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Catia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 369
- 0 boys · 369 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 858 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Catia’s family of names
In Latin usage, Catia is a feminine form of Catius. Catia has a related form in Catherine. In Italian usage, Catia has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Катя.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Catia
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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