Girl name#617 of girl names
Catalina
Pronounced K AE2 T AH0 L IY1 N AH0 (ARPABET)
- 4 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 132 years in use
How popular is Catalina?
Catalina is a girls' name, and first appears in 1893. It has been given to 39,758 children — the 617th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about three times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 3,013 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 4 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- K AE2 T AH0 L IY1 N AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 2010
- Syllables:
- 4
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Catalina
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Catalina
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Catalina?
- Catalina ranks 617th among girls' names in US records, with 39,758 births since 1893. Over the past decade it accounts for 21,939.
- Is Catalina a unisex name?
- No. Catalina is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Catalina most popular?
- 2024, when 3,013 children were given the name. It has been in use for 132 years and is still recorded as of 2024.