Katarina

See also: Katarína and Katarīna

Faroese

Proper noun

Katarina f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Katarina: Katarinuson
• daughter of Katarina: Katarinudóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Katarina
accusative	Katarinu
dative	Katarinu
genitive	Katarinu

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kataˈʁiːna]

• Audio (Austria):

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• Hyphenation: Ka‧ta‧ri‧na

Proper noun

Katarina

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

Norwegian

Proper noun

Katarina

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine

Related terms

• Carina, Cathrine, Kaja, Karen, Kari, Karianne, Karin, Karina, Kathrine, Katrine, Kine, Tine, Trine.

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Katarina f (Cyrillic spelling Катарина)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine

   Synonym: (archaic) Ekaterina

Declension

    Declension of Katarina

	singular	plural
nominative	Katarina	Katarine
genitive	Katarine	Katarina
dative	Katarini	Katarinama
accusative	Katarinu	Katarine
vocative	Katarino	Katarine
locative	Katarini	Katarinama
instrumental	Katarinom	Katarinama

Further reading

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

Swedish

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/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Katarina c (genitive Katarinas)

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

Related terms

• Carin
• Carina
• Kajsa
• Karin
• Karina
• Katja
• Katrin
• Katrina

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] 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.