Katja

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Katja: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Katja: Recorded since 1967, it reached #229 in 1975, and it was last ranked in 2017.

2registrars recorded it
62times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#229highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2016

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#1666
1998	#2701
1999	#1805
2000	#1831
2001	#2783
2002	#1928
2003	#2191
2004	#2802
2005	#3970
2006	#2137
2007	#2410
2008	#3860
2012	#2969
2015	#4103
2016	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 46 of the 51 years from 1967 to 2017.

In 2016: #482 among girls in Norway, #5785 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1967–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #515 among girls in Norway in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1967–2017
Highest recorded position: #229 among girls in Norway, in 1975 (recorded 1967–2017).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #496 among girls in Norway, in 2017.
Norway · Girls

Katja appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 46 years beginning in 1967, and has registered 512 births with the name.

Katja across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Katja's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#515 (1967)	#229 (1975)	#496 (2017)	46 of 51	512 (1967–2017)	20 (1975)
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#1666 (1997)	#5785 (2016)	16 of 21	112 (1996–2016)	10 (1997)

Katja by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Katja in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	25	3 of 10	8
1970sbusiest	152	10 of 10	15
1980s	116	10 of 10	12
1990s	105	10 of 10	11
2000s	90	8 of 10	11
2010s	24	5 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Katja appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #229 in Norway in 1975.

Katja's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#496	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#482	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#540	5	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#587	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#596	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#424	9	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#405	10	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#332	13	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#350	12	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#251	20	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#375	10	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#381	10	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#374	10	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#292	14	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#379	10	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#584	5	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#365	11	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#324	13	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#455	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#439	9	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#437	9	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#318	16	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#355	13	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#492	8	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#431	10	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#294	16	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#403	11	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#440	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#324	13	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#313	14	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#340	12	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#387	10	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#303	14	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#300	15	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#307	14	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#298	14	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#229	20	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#458	7	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#270	16	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#242	19	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#265	16	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#252	17	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#412	7	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#294	13	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#515	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1967 and 2017, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #229, first reached in 1975.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in Norway in 1975.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Katie-Rose · #254, 23y
Katinka · #244, 40y
Katlin · #498, 13y
Katlyn · #213, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Tatjana · #230, 47y
Olwyn · #236, 53y
Bridie · #238, 50y
Freda · #218, 50y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Breffni · #229, 22y
Cathrin · #229, 31y
Eimer · #229, 40y
Godfrey · #229, 14y

Katja was ranked #229 in Norway · Girls in 1975. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Katja and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Katja without appearing here.

Katja moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2969 and #5876.
Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2783 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1928 and #4137.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2783 and #3998.
Lynette Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3970 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #2509.

Moved ahead of Katja

Francis Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2969 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #3214.
Luca Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2969 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #2328.
Josefine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2969 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #4096.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2783 and #1107.

Moved the opposite way to Katja

Emma Compare
Between 1968 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Katja went from #294 to #496 while Emma went from #348 to #1.
Josephine Compare
Between 1968 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Katja went from #294 to #496 while Josephine went from #506 to #263.
Lara Compare
Between 1968 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Katja went from #294 to #496 while Lara went from #553 to #303.
Natalie Compare
Between 1968 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Katja went from #294 to #496 while Natalie went from #514 to #155.

Moved the same way as Katja

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Katja went from #2096 to #5785 and Abigail from #21 to #58.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Katja went from #2096 to #5785 and Aimee from #70 to #400.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Katja went from #2096 to #5785 and Aisling from #440 to #1416.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Katja went from #2096 to #5785 and Alex from #161 to #1416.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #229 in Norway in 1975. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Katja

Katja at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Katja across 2 official records

Katja by decade in Norway · Girls

Katja appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Katja

Katja and the names beside it

Katja moved ahead of

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Katja at a glance

Katja across 2 official records

Katja by decade in Norway · Girls

Katja appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Katja

Katja and the names beside it

Katja moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Katja

Moved the opposite way to Katja

Moved the same way as Katja