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Cataleya

Cataleya reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 236, and has been recorded 11,955 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 237th. About 12,000 Cataleyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cataleya

By the numbers

Total US births
11,955
Estimated living today
12,000
Median age today
5
Peak year
2024
Best rank
236th
Rank in 2025
237th
First recorded
2011

How old the living Cataleyas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 11,955 babies given the name since 2011, about 12,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Cataleya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cataleya is most concentrated in Nevada (3.8×), Arizona (3.0×), New Mexico (2.7×), Texas (2.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular girls’ names the year Cataleya peaked:

All the names of 2024

Cataleya elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Cataleya +4 spellings 4,455 117th
Spain girls Cataleya 925 74th
England and Wales girls Cataleya 747 408th
Italy girls Cataleya 620
Belgium girls Cataleya 566 167th
Switzerland girls Cataleya 401 148th
Poland girls Cataleya 115 birth registrations 305th
Ireland girls Cataleya 50 430th
Scotland girls Cataleya 7 632nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Cataleya: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Cataleya 331 0.027% 126th
French girls Switzerland Cataleya 66 0.015% 156th
Italian girls Switzerland Cataleya 3 0.005% 196th
Romansh girls Switzerland Cataleya 1 0.027% 10th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Cataleya is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 48 of them.

Cataleya: rank by region

In 2025, Cataleya was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Cataleya 391 13
Wallonia Cataleya 141 18
Brussels Cataleya 120 9

In 2025, Cataleya was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Cataleya 234 2
Pomorskie Cataleya 209 2

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Cataleya appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (90th), Province of Liège (113th), Brussels-Capital Region (120th) and Province of Antwerp (276th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Cataleya by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 87 175th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Cataleya among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Cataleya 12 27

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Cataleya lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,777 women called Cataleya were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Granada Cataleya 103 0.214 414
Almería Cataleya 63 0.167 540
Cádiz Cataleya 95 0.148 476
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Cataleya 80 0.144 700
Palmas, Las Cataleya 82 0.139 740
Málaga Cataleya 121 0.132 600

Listed in 47 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 5 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Cataleya against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.