Cathalina
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kah-tah-LEE-nah
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Cathalina is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Cathalina mean?
Greek: spelling of Kathalina, itself a variant of Catalina, the Spanish form of Katherine
A spelling of Catalina, the Spanish form of Katherine, long associated with the Greek katharos 'pure'.
Meaning borrowed from Kathalina.
Is Cathalina a girl's or a boy's name?
Cathalina is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cathalina in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Cathalina, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Cathalina than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Cathalina in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 50 girls in the US were given Cathalina or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,569, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
- Kathalina 41
- Cathalina 9
Cathalina in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,981 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
Nicknames for Cathalina
- Lina 209 girls in the UK in 2025
- Kat
Names like Cathalina
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cataleya, Calliope, Lyra, Briella, Elianna, Catalina, Arabella, Elara, Eliora, Isla, Avianna, Camila
Other spellings of Cathalina
Names related to Cathalina
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cathalina: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cathalina, updated 20 October 2026.