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Catriona

Catriona is a girl's name that peaked in 1998, when it was the 3,648th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 670 Catrionas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Catriona

By the numbers

Total US births
683
Estimated living today
670
Median age today
23
Peak year
1998
Best rank
3,648th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1965

How old the living Catrionas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 683 babies given the name since 1965, about 670 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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 the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic Caitrìona.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Catrionas

People named Catriona with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Catriona is most common

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

Names of 1998

The most popular girls’ names the year Catriona peaked:

All the names of 1998

Catriona elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Scotland girls Catriona 3,136 59th
Ireland girls Catriona 2,589 58th
England and Wales girls Catriona 712 372nd
Northern Ireland girls Catriona 71 145th
France girls Catriona 5 2,148th

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.

Catriona 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 Catriona 18

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.

Related names

Catriona 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.