Katharina
About 2,121 American babies have been named Katharina since 1881, most of them around 1991. In 2025 it ranked 6,325th. About 1,800 Katharinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Katharina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,121
- Estimated living today
- 1,800
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 2,242nd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,325th
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Katharinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,121 babies given the name since 1881, about 1,800 are alive — 86 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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.
Notable Katharinas
- Katharina von Bora (1499–1552)wife of Martin Luther
- Katharina Schmid (born 1996)German female ski jumper
- Katharina Liensberger (born 1997)Austrian female alpine skier
- Katharina Molitor (born 1983)German javelin thrower
- Katharina Schratt (1853–1940)Austrian stage actress
- Princess Katharina of Württemberg (1821–1898)Württemberger Royal
- Katharina Gallhuber (born 1997)Austrian alpine skier
- Katharina Schüttler (born 1979)German actress
People named Katharina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Katharina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Katharina is most concentrated in California (4.4×), New York (3.3×), Texas (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Katharina peaked:
Katharina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria girls | Katharina | 26,726 | 3rd |
| Norway girls | Katharina | 701 | 202nd |
| France girls | Katharina | 525 | 1,007th |
| Switzerland girls | Katharina | 508 | 177th |
| Italy girls | Katharina | 505 | — |
| Belgium girls | Katharina | 118 | 769th |
| England and Wales girls | Katharina | 77 | 2,292nd |
| Poland girls | Katharina | 38 birth registrations | 284th |
| Ireland girls | Katharina | 11 | 396th |
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.
Katharina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Katharina | 488 | 0.039% | 121st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Katharina | 14 | 0.003% | 386th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Katharina | 5 | 0.008% | 104th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Katharina | 1 | 0.027% | 14th |
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, Katharina is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.05% of children were given it – 57 of them.
Katharina: rank by region
In 2015, Katharina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Katharina | 836 | 5 |
In 2002, Katharina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Katharina | 10 | 35 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Katharina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 134 | 103rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Katharina 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Katharina | 3,185 | 7,303 |
| Finland girls | Katharina | 105 | 402 |
| the Netherlands boys | Katharina | — | 255 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Katharina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 332 women called Katharina 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Katharina | 63 | 0.100 | 763 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Katharina | 35 | 0.063 | 1,286 |
| Palmas, Las | Katharina | 36 | 0.061 | 1,481 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Katharina | 28 | 0.027 | 1,986 |
| Tarragona | Katharina | 11 | 0.025 | 2,007 |
| Barcelona | Katharina | 50 | 0.016 | 2,563 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 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.
Related names
Katharina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.