Katia

Where Katia comes from

The dictionaries list Katia as a given name — a female given name from Russian, variant of Katya — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Russian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    Katia Mann born
    German writer, Thomas Mann's wife and Alfred Pringsheim's daughter
  2. 1960
    First appearance
    #6,390 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1983
    Katia Winter born
    Swedish actress
  4. 1996
    Peak, #772
    272 babies named Katia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,619.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Russian, variant of Katya.
Namesakes
  • Katia Mann · German writer, Thomas Mann's wife and Alfred Pringsheim's daughter, 1883–1980
  • Katia Winter · Swedish actress, born 1983
  • Katia Itzel García · Mexican association football referee, born 1992
  • Katia Krafft · French volcanologist, 1942–1991
  • Katia Guerreiro · Portuguese singer, born 1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.