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):(file)
  • 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

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Katarina f (Cyrillic spelling Катарина)

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine
    Synonym: (archaic) Ekaterina

Declension

Further reading

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kata²riːna/
  • Audio:(file)

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
  • [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.