Cataleya is the Hispanic-American spelling of Cattleya — the genus name of the showy tropical orchids native to Central and South America, named in 1824 in honor of British horticulturist William Cattley. Colombiana (2011) — Olivier Megaton's action film starring Zoe Saldana as Cataleya Restrepo, a Colombian assassin avenging her parents' murder; the film became the surprise hit of late summer 2011 and is widely credited as the proximate cause of the name's American baby-naming surge from 2012 onward — a clear case of TV/film influence in US naming registries; produced by Luc Besson; grossed $59 million worldwide. Cataleya Hernandez — American gymnast.
and modern American film.
Cataleya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cataleya reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.