Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kateryna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 169
- 0 boys · 169 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,773 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +11%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,773 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 11.4% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,384 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.
Kateryna’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Kateryna has a related form in Катерина.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kateryna
- Kateryna BilokurUkrainian painter (1900-1961)
- Kateryna LagnoRussian chess playerborn 1989
- Kateryna VolodkoUkrainian female tennis playerborn 1986
- Kateryna KalytkoUkrainian poet, writer, translatorborn 1982
- Kateryna MonzulUkrainian football refereeborn 1981
- Kateryna HandziukUkrainian activist1985–2018
- Kateryna YushchenkoUkrainian Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist (1919–2001)
- Kateryna SerebrianskaUkrainian gymnastborn 1977
- Kateryna TarasenkoUkrainian rowerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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