Katarina

Proper noun

Katarina f

1. a female given name

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kataˈʁiːna]

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• Hyphenation: Ka‧ta‧ri‧na

Proper noun

Katarina

1. a female given name, a less common variant of Katharina

Proper noun

Katarina

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine

Proper noun

Katarina f (Cyrillic spelling Катарина)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine

   Synonym: (archaic) Ekaterina

Further reading

• “Katarina”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

Alternative forms

• Catarina, Catharina, Katharina

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē), name of a saint. First recorded in Sweden around 1200 as Katerina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kata²riːna/

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Proper noun

Katarina c (genitive Katarinas)

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Catherine

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 49 249 females with the given name Katarina living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.