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Kattaleia

Gender
Girl
Say it
kat-ah-LAY-ah
Origin
Modern

Kattaleia is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Kattaleia mean?

Modern: spelling of Kataleia, itself a variant of Cataleya, from the Cattleya orchid named after botanist William Cattley

A spelling of Cataleya, taken from the Cattleya orchid; Cataleya is the heroine of the 2011 film Colombiana.

Meaning borrowed from Kataleia.

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

Kattaleia is a girls' name.

How popular is Kattaleia in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2018, with 53 girls. It first appears in the records in 2018.

Half of all the girls named Kattaleia in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

2018Busiest: 53 in 20182024
Kattaleia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20247#12,156
20230–
20226#13,586
202110#9,557
202015#7,208
201924#5,304
201853#3,049

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Names like Kattaleia

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