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Girl

Katrina

Rooted in German, Katrina is a girl's name that means "German form of Katherine". It had its heyday in the 1980s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

GermanGerman form of Katherine
GreekGreek – "pure"
Births by decade
1900s
42
1910s
148
1920s
212
1930s
298
1940s
743
1950s
3,813
1960s
12,298
1970s
24,366
1980s
28,951
1990s
18,419
2000s
9,511
2010s
1,890
Peaked in the 1980s · 100,691 total U.S. births since 1900