girls:
7.7k births since 1954
#1853 (68th percentile)
overall:
7.7k births since 1954
#3070 (60th percentile)
The name Katerina is the #3,070 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,712 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 60.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,853 (67.6% percentile) for all time with 7,712 births since 1954.
Katerina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (first recorded for girls in 1954). Birth data for Katerina is available in 67 out of the 70 years between 1954 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, Katerina reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 28.9% percentile (ranked #622) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 134 births per million (ranked 28.9% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Katerina ranks #813 for girls (14.2% percentile) with 79 births per million, which is 59.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katerina".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Katerina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.0% confident that Katerina is pronounced as KA-ter-EE-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-TER-ee-nuh, at 18.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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