Catarina
Barely 48 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. It's a foreign spelling of Katarzyna, from the Greek for "pure".
Catarina Pronunciation
Catarina is pronounced tsah-tah-REE-nah (/t͡sataˈrina/).
What Catarina means
Where Catarina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Catarina comes from Greek. The oldest form is Aikaterine, carried by a saint of Alexandria whose story spread west across Europe. It reached the Slavic world without a fixed translation, and Poland settled it as Katarzyna.
The sense of "pure" came later. Medieval readers tied the name to the Greek word katharos, meaning clean, and the spelling drifted toward that reading. The English word catharsis grows from the same root. So the meaning was a match found after the fact, and Polish kept it as czysta.
At home, most girls with this name answer to Kasia. Catarina is the softer, more southern spelling, closer to Portuguese and Italian than to the Katarzyna printed in a school register. Same saint, same name-day in late November. The forms fan out from one Greek word to Kasia, Katarzyna, and Catarina.
How many people are named Catarina
1 in 469663 women in Poland is named Catarina. 48 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5464 among female names.
Catarina as a middle name
Catarina is a first name for 48 women in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1229th, between Ayla (32) and Chi (32).
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#1227 Atina32
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#1228 Ayla32
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#1229 Catarina32
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#1230 Chi32
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#1231 Dalila32