Kateryna
The eastern-facing form of Katarzyna, from the Greek for "pure". Around 49,000 women in Poland carry it, though it's given rarely now: the spelling leans toward Ukraine while the everyday Kasia stays home.
Kateryna Pronunciation
Kateryna is pronounced kah-te-RIH-nah (/katɛˈrɨna/).
What Kateryna means
Where Kateryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kateryna comes from Greek, from Aikaterine, a name carried into Slavic languages long before anyone agreed on what it meant. The sense of "pure" was attached to the name later, once medieval writers linked it to the Greek word katharos. In Poland the same root gives Katarzyna, and from there the everyday Kasia, the name that fills any school register.
The Ukrainian form has its own weight. Taras Shevchenko titled one of his early poems Kateryna, published in 1838, telling of a village girl abandoned by a Russian officer. That poem fixed the name in Ukrainian memory as something tender and wronged.
So a Polish girl named Kateryna keeps a small border in her name. The spelling leans east, toward Kyiv, while Katarzyna stays home. Both mean the same thing on paper: pure, czysta. Say the diminutive and you are back in Poland, where Kasia answers to nobody's history but her own.
How many people are named Kateryna
1 in 462 women in Poland is named Kateryna. 48,758 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #193 among female names.
Kateryna's popularity over time
24 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #482 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000. Still the #193 name among living women, even as it slips to #482 among newborns.
Where parents choose Kateryna
Kateryna is most popular in West Pomeranian, 97% above the national average (10 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+80%) and Masovian (+60%). It is least common in Pomeranian and Subcarpathian, 77% and 72% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian
+97%1 in 8,443 babies
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Lower Silesian
+80%1 in 9,243 babies
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Masovian
+60%1 in 10,420 babies
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Pomeranian
−77%1 in 73,661 babies
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Subcarpathian
−72%1 in 60,283 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−54%1 in 36,460 babies
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West Pomeranian+97% 10 born1 in 8,443 babies+97%
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Lower Silesian+80% 17 born1 in 9,243 babies+80%
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Masovian+60% 34 born1 in 10,420 babies+60%
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Greater Poland+31% 17 born1 in 12,661 babies+31%
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Łódź+31% 10 born1 in 12,672 babies+31%
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Opole+8% 3 born1 in 15,365 babies+8%
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Lubusz±0% 3 born1 in 16,552 babies±0%
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Lesser Poland−12% 12 born1 in 18,910 babies−12%
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Silesian−27% 10 born1 in 22,758 babies−27%
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Podlaskie−49% 2 born1 in 32,893 babies−49%
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Lublin−51% 3 born1 in 34,225 babies−51%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−54% 3 born1 in 36,460 babies−54%
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Warmian-Masurian−54% 2 born1 in 35,897 babies−54%
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Subcarpathian−72% 2 born1 in 60,283 babies−72%
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Pomeranian−77% 2 born1 in 73,661 babies−77%
Kateryna as a middle name
Kateryna is a first name for 48,758 women in Poland and a middle name for another 45, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1024th, between Katerina (45) and Larissa (45).
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#1022 Annamaria45
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#1023 Katerina45
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#1024 Kateryna45
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#1025 Larissa45
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#1026 Mihaela45