Catarina
Catarina is a girl name of Portuguese origin, meaning Pure.
What Catarina means
Pure.
Catarina sits at 8 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Catarina comes from
Portuguese names keep close to their Latin origins, with strong Marian and saintly traditions shaping the most common choices.
Catarina is recorded as Portuguese in origin. Browse other Portuguese names.
How popular is Catarina?
Catarina is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Catarina is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Catarina
We group Catarina under the long-established classics. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Classic
Names like Catarina
These share Catarina's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Camila — Perfect, unblemished.
- Charlotte — Free; petite and feminine.
- Clara — Bright, clear, famous.
- Cora — Maiden.
- Adeline — Noble; of noble kind.
- Alice — Noble; of the nobility.
- Amelia — Industrious and striving.
- Aurelia — The golden one.
- Beatrice — She who brings happiness.
- Caitlin — Pure.
- Capri — Of the isle; free-spirited.
- Caroline — Free woman; strong.