Ekaterine
The Georgian shape of a name Poland knows as Katarzyna, both grown from the same Greek root. Only about 200 women in Poland carry this form, so meeting one stays with you.
Ekaterine Pronunciation
Ekaterine is pronounced e-kah-te-REE-ne (/ɛkatɛˈrinɛ/).
What Ekaterine means
Where Ekaterine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ekaterine comes from Greek, the Georgian shape of a name Poland knows better as Katarzyna. The oldest recorded form is Aikaterine, and its earliest meaning is still debated. The name looks back to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, an early Christian martyr, whose Greek name gave every later branch its start.
The sense of "pure" was attached later. Christian writers heard the Greek word katharos, meaning clean, inside the sound of it, and read that meaning into the letters. The first bearers would not have known the name as anything but a name.
A Polish teacher reading a register might pause at Ekaterine before reaching Katarzyna, then set the two beside each other. Same origin, different road. The girl who answers to it holds an old martyr's name and a Greek word for clean at the same time. On any form at the urząd, what she signs is Ekaterine.
How many people are named Ekaterine
1 in 109970 women in Poland is named Ekaterine. 205 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2197 among female names.