girls:
10.1k births since 1950
#1581 (72nd percentile)
overall:
10.1k births since 1950
#2653 (66th percentile)
The name Catrina is the #2,653 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,126 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 65.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,581 (72.3% percentile) for all time with 10,126 births since 1950.
Catrina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for girls in 1950). Birth data for Catrina is available in 73 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Catrina reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 47.1% percentile (ranked #416) with 255 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 262 births per million (ranked 44.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Catrina ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 2.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Catrina".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Catrina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Catrina is pronounced as kuh-TREE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-TRAI-nuh, at 9.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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