Catalina vs Catrece
American parents have registered 33,016 Catalinas since 1880, against 47 Catreces. Catalina is still ahead, with 2,456 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Catalina Catrece
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Catalina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1893 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1969, when Catalina had 71 and Catrece had 14.
Side by side
| Catalina | Catrece | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 33,016 | 47 |
| Most in one year | 2,456 | 14 |
| Babies in 2025 | 2,456 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 31,000 | 40 |
| Median age today | 8 | 54 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1969 |
| Best rank | 111th girls | 3,774th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 111th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1893 | 1969 |
| Girls / boys | 33,009 / 7 | 47 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Catreces alive today are over 54; half the Catalinas are over 8. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Catalina and Catrece.