Katalaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kat-uh-LAY-uh
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,757 for girls
Katalaya is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,757th for girls in the US (28 babies).
What does Katalaya mean?
English: spelling of Catalaya, itself a variant of Cataleya, from the orchid Cattleya, named after botanist William Cattley
Cataleya spread after the 2011 film Colombiana, whose heroine is named after the Cattleya orchid.
Meaning borrowed from Catalaya.
Is Katalaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Katalaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 28 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Katalaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,757among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 28about 1 in 57,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 28 girls in the US were named Katalaya, making it the 4,757th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,914th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 56 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Katalaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 184 girls in the US were given Katalaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,109, up from #4,757 for this spelling alone.
Katalaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,757 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,667 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,996 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,200 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,881 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,914 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,342 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,676 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,809 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,841 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,003 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,000 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,484 |
Nicknames for Katalaya
- Cat
Names like Katalaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaya Amoura Alaya Kaliyah Raya Inaya Kamiyah Zhamira Safa Zamira Zayla Zaliyah
Other spellings of Katalaya
Catalaya Kataleia Catalea Cataleia Katalea Kataleah Cataleah
Names related to Katalaya
More English names
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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, “Katalaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/katalaya, updated 20 October 2026.