Katalin
Most Poles have never met a Katalin: just 151 carry it, and nearly all are women. From Greek, the name means "pure".
Katalin Pronunciation
Katalin is pronounced kah-TAH-leen (/kaˈtalin/).
What Katalin means
Where Katalin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Katalin begins with the Greek name Aikaterine. Where that name first came from, no one can prove. Some tie it to an older Greek root, though the trail is thin. The sense of "pure" was attached later, when speakers linked it to the Greek word katharos, meaning clean. The link held, and "pure" became the meaning people carry now.
Katalin is the Hungarian form of the same name Poland knows as Katarzyna. The saint behind it, Catherine of Alexandria, gave the name its early reach. It crossed the old kingdoms of central Europe and settled into many tongues.
On a Polish class register, a Katalin stands out among the Katarzynas. The name points to a family line that leans south, toward Hungary. Its meaning holds in any spelling. Pure, czysta.
How many people are named Katalin
1 in 152323 women in Poland is named Katalin. 151 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2644 among female names.
Katalin as a middle name
Katalin is a first name for 151 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1459th, between Karmela (24) and Katja (24).
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#1457 Jurata24
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#1458 Karmela24
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#1459 Katalin24
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#1460 Katja24
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#1461 Kudzai24