Katya
About 3,176 American babies have been named Katya since 1962, most of them around 2001. In 2025 it ranked 3,577th. About 3,100 Katyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Katya
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,176
- Estimated living today
- 3,100
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 1,311th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,577th
- First recorded
- 1962
How old the living Katyas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,176 babies given the name since 1962, about 3,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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 Russian, Ukrainian
diminutive of Екатери́на, Катери́на.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Katyas
- Katya Paskaleva (1945–2002)Bulgarian actress
- Katya Sambuca (born 1991)Russian actor, singer and model
- Katya Lel (born 1974)Russian singer
- Katya Chilly (born 1978)Ukrainian singer
- Katya Lycheva (born 1974)Russian actress
People named Katya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Katya is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Katya is most concentrated in California (4.4×), Texas (3.6×), Arizona (2.3×), Colorado (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular girls’ names the year Katya peaked:
Katya elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Katya | 580 | 721st |
| England and Wales girls | Katya | 371 | 787th |
| Scotland girls | Katya | 13 | 555th |
| Belgium girls | Katya | 5 | 1,357th |
| Poland girls | Katya | 4 birth registrations | 658th |
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.
Katya 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 | Katya | 31 | 38 |
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 Katya lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 476 women called Katya 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Katya | 8 | 0.101 | 766 |
| Burgos | Katya | 16 | 0.088 | 790 |
| León | Katya | 15 | 0.065 | 989 |
| Huesca | Katya | 7 | 0.062 | 978 |
| Valladolid | Katya | 15 | 0.055 | 987 |
| Guadalajara | Katya | 7 | 0.050 | 1,128 |
Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 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
Katya 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.