Katarina

Where Katarina comes from

Katarina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #6,103 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Katarina Witt born
    German figure skater
  3. 1981
    Katarina Srebotnik born
    Slovenian female tennis player
  4. 1994
    Peak, #476
    523 babies named Katarina — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #951.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Katarina Witt · German figure skater, born 1965
  • Katarina Srebotnik · Slovenian female tennis player, born 1981
  • Katarina Taikon · Swedish Romani writer-actor, 1932–1995
  • Katarina Barley · German politician, born 1968
  • Katarina Johnson-Thompson · British heptathlete, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.