Cattleya
Girl · kat-LAY-a · English
Cattleya is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “cattleya orchid”. In 2025 it ranked 1,211th for girls in the US (187 babies).
What does Cattleya mean?
English: orchid genus named after William Cattley
“cattleya orchid”
The orchid genus Cattleya is named after William Cattley, an English plant collector of the early 19th century.
- Say it
- kat-LAY-a
Is Cattleya a girl's or a boy's name?
Cattleya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 187 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cattleya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Cattleya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Cattleya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
How popular is Cattleya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,211among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 187about 1 in 8,600 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 98% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 187 girls in the US were named Cattleya, making it the 1,211th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,649th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 293 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the girls named Cattleya in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 211 girls in the US were given Cattleya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,024, up from #1,211 for this spelling alone.
- Cattleya 187
- Kattleya 24
Cattleya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 187 | #1,211 |
| 2024 | 293 | #904 |
| 2023 | 224 | #1,097 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,763 |
| 2021 | 136 | #1,544 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,649 |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,755 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,799 |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,563 |
| 2016 | 121 | #1,731 |
| 2015 | 132 | #1,622 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,692 |
| 2013 | 125 | #1,684 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,698 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
Names like Cattleya
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Other spellings of Cattleya
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