Catalea

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
9
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Catalea by the numbers

Catalea was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 20 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Catalea

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Catalea. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Cataleyapure; a modern respelling of Catalina or Cataleyah636 in the US (2017)
  • Catalenaa form of Catalina or Catherine, pure8 in the US (2017)
  • Catalia21 in the US (2017)
  • Cataleia13 in the US (2017)
  • Cataleah11 in the US (2017)
  • Catalya6 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Catalea

Names that are said the same way as Catalea, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Catalea

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