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Katerin

Gender
Girl
Say it
ka-teh-REEN
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#5,553 for girls

Katerin is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).

What does Katerin mean?

Greek: Spanish-American spelling of Katherine

Katherine comes from Greek Aikaterine, of uncertain origin, long linked with katharos, 'pure'.

Is Katerin a girl's or a boy's name?

Katerin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Katerin in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,553rd among girls
Babies in 2025
22 about 1 in 73,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 5% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Katerin, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 80 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.

Half of all the girls named Katerin in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1988Busiest: 80 in 20062025
Katerin in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202522#5,553
202426#5,018
202319#6,164
202222#5,635
202114#7,625
202020#5,846
201922#5,608
201822#5,615
201714#7,836
201618#6,660
201518#6,719
201419#6,449
201318#6,725
201220#6,338
201135#4,150
201027#5,106
200937#4,106
200850#3,315
200770#2,616
200680#2,353
200559#2,783
200451#3,029
200339#3,586
200245#3,142
200141#3,312
200032#3,881
199921#5,033
199816#6,068
199733#3,445
199613#6,718
199518#5,216
199421#4,682
199318#5,200
199213#6,645
199110#7,980
19908#9,241
19896#10,841
19886#10,381

Nicknames for Katerin

Names like Katerin

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Katerin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/katerin, updated 20 October 2026.