Katana
- #3,389 for girls in 2025, 45 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 79 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,771since 1958
Katana over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Katana has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,389 | 45 |
| 2024 | #2,559 | 69 |
| 2023 | #2,314 | 79 |
| 2022 | #2,639 | 66 |
| 2021 | #2,533 | 69 |
| 2020 | #2,890 | 56 |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 |
| 2018 | #2,610 | 66 |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #2,712 | 65 |
| 2014 | #3,005 | 56 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 |
| 2012 | #3,134 | 53 |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #2,930 | 61 |
| 2006 | #3,854 | 39 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 |
| 2004 | #2,620 | 63 |
| 2003 | #3,043 | 49 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 |
| 1999 | #2,737 | 50 |
| 1998 | #2,570 | 53 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #3,361 | 34 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
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| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
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First appearance
1958
The first year at least five girls were named Katana! It came in at #4,890, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Katana is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Katana in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 830 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #3,389)
- 499 spots since 2020 (#2,890 → #3,389)
- 677 spots since 2015 (#2,712 → #3,389)
Rise & fade · girls
65 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2023 at #2,314 (79 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 20,311
- Highest: 1 in 20,311 girls born in 2023 were named Katana (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 35,717 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 31.5% of all girls named Katana (558) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #4,890 (1958) | #4,890 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,567 (1961) | #6,567 |
| 1970s | 33 | #6,362 (1970) | #7,360 |
| 1980s | 43 | #6,531 (1989) | #8,989 |
| 1990s | 255 | #2,570 (1998) | #4,904 |
| 2000s | 486 | #2,620 (2004) | #3,234 |
| 2010s | 558 | #2,610 (2018) | #3,017 |
| 2020s | 384 | #2,314 (2023) | #2,721 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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