# Ekaterina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ekaterina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ɪˌkæ.təˈɹiː.nə/, 5 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,003 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 1,003 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 213, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian and Russian Екатерина (Jekaterina).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 3,797 |
| 2012 | 35 | 4,237 |
| 2013 | 28 | 4,935 |
| 2014 | 33 | 4,382 |
| 2015 | 40 | 3,790 |
| 2016 | 33 | 4,368 |
| 2017 | 31 | 4,509 |
| 2018 | 26 | 5,051 |
| 2019 | 31 | 4,469 |
| 2020 | 19 | 6,141 |
| 2021 | 19 | 6,244 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5,832 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,354 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,710 |
| 2025 | 20 | 5,970 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 1,608 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,460 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,705 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,547 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,817 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3,178 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,869 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,615 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Ekaterina

- Ekaterina Svanidze, first wife of Josef Stalin (1885–1907)
- Ekaterina Zaharieva, European Commissioner and former Deputy PM and minister in Bulgaria
- Ekaterina Dafovska, Bulgarian biathlete
- Ekaterina Karavelova, Bulgarian social activist, teacher, writer and translator
- Yekaterina Fesenko, 400 metres hurdles
- Ekaterina Dzehalevich, Belarusian tennis player
- Yekaterina Glazyrina, biathlete
- Ekaterina Alekseyevna Dolgorukova, Engaged to tsar Peter II of Russia
- Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova, Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet
- Ekaterina Kotrikadze, Georgian and Russian journalist
- Ekaterina Junge, born countess Tolstoy, Russian painter and memoirist (1843–1913)
- Ekaterina Senyavina, composer and pianist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.