Yekaterina

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Yekaterina

Say it: yeh-kah-tyeh-REE-nah

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Meaning

Russian form of Catherine, from Greek Aikaterine, of unknown origin; the link with 'pure' is a folk etymology.

Disputedsharp disagreement, or a popular meaning that is not supported.

A royal name in Russia from the 18th century and one of the most common Russian girls' names since.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

84 babies given this name since 1998
At its height in 2010, about 1 in 197,300 girls
Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Russian Ukrainian Bulgarian

The family of the name

Other spellings: Ekaterina, Екатерина, Katya

Ukrainian	Kateryna
Bulgarian	Ekaterina
Polish	Katarzyna

Famous bearers

Catherine the Great (Yekaterina II), Empress of Russia

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Where this comes from

Royal and noble genealogies
Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
National birth statistics of European countries source
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.