Girls' name · peaked in 1980

Katrina name popularity since 1925

101,429 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Katrina. Half of them were born in 1982 or earlier, so the typical Katrina is about 44 years old in 2026. Katrina peaked in 1980 as the #90 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 101,429; Named Katrina, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1980; #90 for girls that year
Typical age: About 44; Median birth year 1982
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,226 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.8% girls; 101,191 girls · 238 boys
Most popular in: Alaska; 2.49× its national share

Peak year is the year Katrina made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Katrina births per year, 1925–2025

1980 was the biggest year for Katrina both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1953 and 1958, Katrina became 2.3× more common, from 1 in 6,920 baby girls to 1 in 2,960.
Steepest fall: Between 2005 and 2010, its share of baby girls fell by 75%, from 1 in 1,390 to 1 in 5,660.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Katrina's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Katrina.

Decade by decade

Babies named Katrina in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	111	0	–
1930s	298	0	#1,584
1940s	743	0	#999
1950s	3,812	0	#489
1960s	12,279	20	#239
1970s	24,292	71	#131
1980s	28,828	124	#93
1990s	18,401	23	#181
2000s	9,521	0	#247
2010s	2,198	0	#1,133
2020–25	708	0	#2,226

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

39.4% of babies named Katrina from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Where Katrina is most popular

The index compares Katrina's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Katrina.

State	Index	Babies
Alaska	2.49×	368
District of Columbia	1.82×	834
Oregon	1.59×	1,482
Florida	1.50×	5,408
Maine	1.49×	633

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Katrina and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Katrina (this page)	101,191	1980
Catrina	10,150	1973
Katrena	1,422	1972

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Katrina's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Katrina.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Katrina (1980).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data