Cattaleya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-ta-LAY-a
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #1,478 for girls
Cattaleya is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “cattleya orchid”. In 2025 it ranked 1,478th for girls in the US (145 babies).
What does Cattaleya mean?
English: spelling of Cattleya, the orchid named after William Cattley
“cattleya orchid”
From the Cattleya orchid; the heroine of the 2011 action film Colombiana is named Cataleya.
Is Cattaleya a girl's or a boy's name?
Cattaleya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 145 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cattaleya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2018, with 4 girls.
Cattaleya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
How popular is Cattaleya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,478among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 145about 1 in 11,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 151% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 145 girls in the US were named Cattaleya, making it the 1,478th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,015th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 165 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Cattaleya in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Cattaleya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 145 | #1,478 |
| 2024 | 165 | #1,374 |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,878 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,073 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,558 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,015 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,814 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,003 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,713 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,631 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,484 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,402 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,463 |
Names like Cattaleya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Freya Arabella Harper Cataleya Isla Emilia Maeva Lyra Mila Willow Eliana Elodie
Names related to Cattaleya
Kataleya Cattleya Catalaya Kattaleya Cataleia Catalea Cataleyah
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Cattaleya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cattaleya, updated 20 October 2026.