# Katja (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/katja/  
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 | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 949 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 949 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 112, 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 | 17 | 7,263 |
| 2012 | 13 | 8,888 |
| 2013 | 22 | 5,919 |
| 2014 | 7 | 13,810 |
| 2015 | 16 | 7,437 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,198 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,146 |
| 2018 | 19 | 6,386 |
| 2019 | 15 | 7,531 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,688 |
| 2021 | 14 | 7,830 |
| 2022 | 7 | 12,891 |
| 2023 | 8 | 11,703 |
| 2024 | 9 | 10,678 |
| 2025 | 5 | 16,086 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 10 | 1,666 |
| 1998 | 5 | 2,701 |
| 1999 | 9 | 1,805 |
| 2000 | 9 | 1,831 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,783 |
| 2002 | 9 | 1,928 |
| 2003 | 8 | 2,191 |
| 2004 | 6 | 2,802 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,970 |
| 2006 | 10 | 2,137 |
| 2007 | 9 | 2,410 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |

## People named Katja

- Katja Riemann, German actress
- Katja Seizinger, German former alpine ski racer
- Katja Nyberg, Finnish-Norwegian handball player
- Katja Woywood, German actress
- Katja Herbers, Dutch actress
- Katja Koren, alpine skier
- Katja Schuurman, Dutch actress, singer and presenter (born 1975)
- Katja Flint, German actress
- Katja von Garnier, German film director
- Katja Salskov-Iversen, Danish sailor
- Katja Kramarczyk, German handball player
- Katja Kettu, Finnish writer and animation director (born 1978)

## 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.