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Girl's name · #238 in the US (2025) · Trending
The whole story of Cataleya fits in one generation — unrecorded before 2011, about 12,000 girls since, and a 2025 rank of #238 (1,300 newborns last year).
Cataleya rose sharply in the early 2010s, helped by the 2011 film Colombiana, whose heroine is Cataleya Restrepo.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 38 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#75 in Spain (2024) · #82 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #83 in Ecuador (2025) · #144 in Mexico (2024) · #149 in France (2025) · #227 in Austria (2025) · #242 in Belgium (2025) · #324 in Sweden (2025) · #341 in Switzerland (2025) · #345 in Netherlands (2025) · #400 in Poland (2025) · #511 in England & Wales (2025) and 3 more.
Together with its spelling variants Kataleya (#459) and Cattaleya (#1479), Cataleya would rank around #136 with about 2,100 births last year — the newborns split about 61/32/7 across Cataleya, Kataleya, and Cattaleya.
Similar names: Kataleya · Selah · Katalina · Talia · Aurelia · Kailani
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