Entry № 1814 · Scottish Gaelic origin

Catriona Catriona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ka-TREE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Meaning
"Pure"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish Gaelic)

A name that means "pure".

Catriona is the Scottish Gaelic form of Catherine — from the Greek katharos, "pure." Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Catriona (1893) is the sequel to Kidnapped.

Catriona is widely used in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora.

Pure. The Scottish Catherine.

The name in its native script.

Catrìona
Transliteration
Catrìona
Pronunciation
/ kəˈtriː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Catriona stands.

Catriona 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.

Catrionas before her.

Real people
Caitríona Balfe
Irish actress, Outlander.
born 1979
In fiction
Catriona
Heroine of Stevenson's 1893 novel.
1893 novel

Names connected to Catriona.

The number behind Catriona.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Catriona reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.