Katrina
Katrina reached its high-water mark in 1980 at number 90, and has been recorded 101,731 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,214th. About 96,000 Katrinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Katrina boys named Katrina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 101,731
- Estimated living today
- 96,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 90th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,214th
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 101,493 / 238
How old the living Katrinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 101,731 babies given the name since 1895, about 96,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 3,600 of them are children and 4,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Katrinas
- Katrina Kaif (born 1983)British actress (1981-present)
- Katrina Bowden (born 1988)American actress and model
- Katrina Law (born 1985)American actress
- Katrina Lehis (born 1994)Estonian fencer
- Katrina Leskanich (born 1960)American singer
- Katrina Gorry (born 1992)Australian association football player
- Katrina Adams (born 1968)US tennis player
- Katrina McClain (born 1965)American basketball player
People named Katrina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Katrina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Katrina is most concentrated in Alaska (2.7×), the District of Columbia (1.9×), Oregon (1.6×), Florida (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular girls’ names the year Katrina peaked:
Katrina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Katrina | 3,184 | 19th |
| England and Wales girls | Katrina | 2,216 | 177th |
| Scotland girls | Katrina | 1,904 | 71st |
| Ireland girls | Katrina | 593 | 175th |
| France girls | Katrina | 215 | 2,866th |
| Norway girls | Katrina | 155 | 399th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Katrina | 45 | 164th |
| Poland girls | Katrina | 39 birth registrations | 422nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Katrina: rank by region
In 2023, Katrina was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Katrina | 318 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Katrina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Katrina | 228 | 876 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Katrina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 274 women called Katrina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Katrina | 18 | 0.032 | 2,136 |
| Palmas, Las | Katrina | 17 | 0.029 | 2,567 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Katrina | 25 | 0.024 | 2,150 |
| Málaga | Katrina | 22 | 0.024 | 1,905 |
| Granada | Katrina | 9 | 0.019 | 1,908 |
| Toledo | Katrina | 6 | 0.016 | 2,323 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Katrina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.