Entry № 1800 · Spanish origin

Catalina Catalina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-tah-LEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Pure, holy"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "pure, holy".

Catalina is the Spanish and Catalan form of Catherine — from the Greek katharos, meaning "pure." Catalina Island off the coast of southern California is named after Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Catalina has been climbing rapidly in the U.S. since the 2010s. Today it sits in the U.S. top 350.

Pure. The Spanish form of Catherine.

The name in its native script.

Catalina
Transliteration
Catalina
Pronunciation
/ ˌkæt.əˈliː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Catalina stands.

Catalina 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.

Catalinas before her.

Real people
Catalina Sandino Moreno
Colombian actress, Oscar nominee for Maria Full of Grace.
born 1981
In fiction
Catalina
Heroine of Las Chicas del Cable.
Netflix, 2017–2020

Names connected to Catalina.

The number behind Catalina.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Catalina reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.