Entry № 5288 · Ukrainian origin

Kateryna Kateryna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-teh-RIH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ukrainian
Meaning
"Pure"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Ukrainian)

A name that means "pure".

Kateryna (Катерина) is the Ukrainian form of Catherine — from the Greek katharos, meaning "pure." One of the most beloved names in Ukrainian culture, immortalized in Taras Shevchenko's 1838 poem Kateryna.

Kateryna is widely used in Ukraine.

Pure. The Ukrainian Catherine of Shevchenko's poem.

The name in its native script.

Катерина
Transliteration
Kateryna
Pronunciation
/ ˌkæ.təˈrɪn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kateryna stands.

Kateryna 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.

Katerynas before her.

Real people
Kateryna Bondarenko
Ukrainian tennis player.
born 1986
In fiction
Kateryna
Heroine of Shevchenko's poem.
1838 Ukrainian poem

Names connected to Kateryna.

The number behind Kateryna.

5

The Seeker

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