# Katia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/katia/  
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 | Russian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,339 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 6,339 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 224, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 133 | 1,625 |
| 2012 | 141 | 1,556 |
| 2013 | 116 | 1,771 |
| 2014 | 132 | 1,629 |
| 2015 | 109 | 1,876 |
| 2016 | 118 | 1,765 |
| 2017 | 93 | 2,091 |
| 2018 | 110 | 1,845 |
| 2019 | 112 | 1,826 |
| 2020 | 112 | 1,774 |
| 2021 | 85 | 2,197 |
| 2022 | 92 | 2,097 |
| 2023 | 123 | 1,684 |
| 2024 | 108 | 1,862 |
| 2025 | 93 | 2,042 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,862 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Katia

- Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (1942–1991)
- Kátia, Brazilian association football player
- Kátia Lund, Brazilian film director and screenwriter
- Kátia Abreu, Brazilian politician
- Katia Benth, French athlete
- Kátya Chamma, Brazilian singer and writer
- Katya Galstyan, Armenian cross-country skier
- Vanessa Duriès, French writer (1972–1993)

## 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.