Entry № 5287 · Czech origin

Kateřina Kateřina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-TEH-rzhi-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Czech
Meaning
"Pure (Czech Catherine)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Czech)

A name that means "pure (czech catherine)".

Kateřina is the Czech form of Catherine — from the Greek katharos, meaning "pure." One of the most popular Czech feminine names.

Kateřina Siniaková (born 1996) is the Czech tennis player; Kateřina Neumannová (born 1973) is the Czech Olympic cross-country skier.

Pure. The Czech Catherine.

The name in its native script.

Kateřina
Transliteration
Kateřina
Pronunciation
/ kɑːˈtɛ.ʒɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kateřina stands.

Kateřina 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.

Kateřinas before her.

Real people
Kateřina Siniaková
Czech tennis player.
born 1996
Kateřina Neumannová
Czech Olympic skier.
born 1973
In fiction
Kateřina
Common in Czech fiction.

Names connected to Kateřina.

The number behind Kateřina.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kateřina reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.