Cataleya
Pronounced K AE1 T EY1 L Y AA1 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 14 years in use
- 5 spellings
How popular is Cataleya?
Cataleya is a girls' name, and first appears in 2011. It has been given to 16,672 children — the 1,033rd most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about four times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 2,212 children were given it.
Five other spellings are counted in that total — Kataleya, Cattaleya, Kattaleya and two more — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Cataleya and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Kataleya
- Cattaleya
- Kattaleya
- Kataleyah
- Cataleyah
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- K AE1 T EY1 L Y AA1
- Stress pattern:
- 111
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Cataleya
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Cataleya
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Cataleya?
- Cataleya ranks 1,033rd among girls' names in US records, with 16,672 births since 2011. Over the past decade it accounts for 13,636.
- Is Cataleya a unisex name?
- No. Cataleya is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Cataleya most popular?
- 2024, when 2,212 children were given the name. It has been in use for 14 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Cataleya spelled?
- Kataleya, Cattaleya, Kattaleya, Kataleyah, Cataleyah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.