girls:
101.3k births since 1895
#363 (94th percentile)
boys:
238 births since 1962
#4348 (5th percentile)
overall:
101.5k births since 1895
#674 (91st percentile)
The name Katrina is the #674 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 101,510 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 91.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #363 (93.7% percentile) for all time with 101,272 births since 1895. For boys, it ranks #4,348 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 238 births since 1962.
Katrina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for girls and 1962 for boys). Birth data for Katrina is available in 122 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023 (122 years for girls and 25 years for boys). 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.
The name Katrina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Katrina reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 89.1% percentile (ranked #87) with 1,831 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 1,907 births per million (ranked 88.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1982, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Katrina ranks #846 for girls (10.7% percentile) with 61 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Katrina reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #741) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katrina".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Katrina is pronounced as kuh-TREE-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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