Katina

Where Katina comes from

Katina 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. 1900
    Katina Paxinou born
    Greek actress
  2. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,975 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1961
    Katina Schubert born
    German politician
  4. 1972
    Peak, #117
    2,747 babies named Katina — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #307.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Katina Paxinou · Greek actress, 1900–1973
  • Katina Schubert · German politician, born 1961
  • Katina Papa · Greek writer, 1903–1959
  • Katina Proestakis · Chilean fencer, born 2002
  • Katina Ivanova · Macedonian actress, 1951–2023

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.