Katya is the Russian diminutive of Yekaterina — the Russian form of Catherine, from the Greek katharos, "pure." Used throughout Slavic-speaking Europe as the everyday short form.
Katya is rare as a standalone given name in the U.S.
Katya 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Katya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.