Given name & surname · also Old Norse
Katla
“kettle; helmet”
Katla is a feminine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Katla goes back to a word meaning “kettle; helmet.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Katla comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Katla is a feminine form of Ketill.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Katla through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Katla’s family of names
In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Katla is a feminine form of Ketill. In Greek usage, Katla as a surname is a transliteration of Κατλά.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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