Entry № 5276 · Hungarian origin

Katalin Katalin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-tah-lin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hungarian
Meaning
"Pure (Katalin Karikó, mRNA vaccine Nobel)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Hungarian)

A name that means "pure (katalin karikó, mrna vaccine nobel)".

Katalin is the Hungarian form of Catherine — from the Greek katharos (pure). Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2022).

Subject of her memoir Breaking Through (2023).

Pure (Katalin Karikó, mRNA vaccine Nobel) — a Hungarian name.

The name in its native script.

Katalin
Transliteration
Katalin
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɒ.tɒ.lin /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Katalin stands.

Katalin 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.

Katalins before her.

Real people
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian-American biochemist.
born 1955
In fiction
Katalin
Breaking Through.
2023

Names connected to Katalin.

The number behind Katalin.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Katalin reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.