How popular is the baby name Catalaya in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Catalaya.
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The curious name Cataleya first appeared in the U.S. baby name data in 2011:
2014: 695 baby girls were named Cataleya [rank: 460th]
2013: 687 baby girls were named Cataleya [rank: 448th]
2012: 639 baby girls were named Cataleya [rank: 480th]
2011: 29 baby girls were named Cataleya [debut]
2010: unlisted
2009: unlisted
The next year, it jumped straight into the girls’ top 500. The jump was so big that it qualified Cataleya as the fastest-rising baby name of 2012.
Here’s the graph:
The sudden trendiness of Cataleya inspired parents to create dozens of variant spellings, such as…
2010
2011
2012
2013
Cataleya
.
29*
639 [rank: 480th]
687 [rank: 448th]
Kataleya
.
10*
197
240
Cattleya
.
8*
123
124
Catalaya
.
.
51*
57
Cattaleya
.
.
46*
46
Catalia
.
.
35*
29
Katalaya
.
.
32*
37
Katalia
.
.
26*
25
Kattleya
.
.
26*
29
Catalea
.
.
20*
9
Kataleah
.
.
17*
10
Kattaleya
.
.
17*
23
Katalea
.
.
16*
19
Katalayah
.
.
12*
.
Kathaleya
.
.
12*
6
Cataleyah
.
.
11*
22
Cateleya
.
.
11*
8
Kataleyah
.
.
10*
18
Kathalia
.
.
9*
.
Cataleah
.
.
8*
15
Kataleia
.
.
8*
10
Kataliyah
.
.
8*
8
Kataliya
.
.
7*
8
Katilaya
.
.
7*
11
Cataleia
.
.
6*
5
Cataliyah
.
.
5*
5
Catilaya
.
.
5*
.
Catileya
.
.
5*
.
Cathaleya
.
.
.
8*
Catalya
.
.
.
6*
Catelaya
.
.
.
6*
Kataleiya
.
.
.
6*
Cattalaya
.
.
.
5*
Kateleya
.
.
.
5*
*Debut
(Catalaya and Cattaleya were the second- and third-highest girl-name debuts of 2012, incidentally.)
So where did the name Cataleya come from?
The action thriller movie Colombiana, which was released in the summer of 2011.
The main character, Cataleya Restrepo (played by Zoë Saldaña), had witnessed her parents being murdered when she was a child in Bogotá. Fifteen years later, after being raised by an uncle in Chicago, she was working as a contract killer and seeking vengeance on the men who killed her family.
The character was named after the orchid genus Cattleya (pronounced KAT-lee-uh). She wears a Cattleya necklace that had belonged to her mother, and leaves a lipstick drawing of a Cattleya on each of her victims as a calling card.
The genus Cattleya, native to the tropical rainforests of South America, was named in honor of British horticulturalist William Cattley. His surname, a variant of Catley, can refer to any of several places in England called Catley.
What are your thoughts on the name Cataleya? (How would you spell it?)
P.S. Zoë Saldaña also plays Neytiri in the Avatar films.
Are you a cat lover looking for baby names that contain the word CAT?
If so, you’re in luck!
Because today’s post is a long list — or should I say catalogue? — of names that contain the letter sequence “c-a-t.” Most of these names come directly from the U.S. SSA’s baby name data.
Which names with CAT are the most popular in the U.S. right now? The top five are Catalina, Catherine, Cataleya, Cattleya, and Catarina — all girl names. (In fact, the only boy names with CAT in the data at the moment are Cato, Catarino, Cathan, and Catalino.)
Which CAT name do you like most? Let me know in the comments!
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 1, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 1-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “ones” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Taylor correspond to the numbers 20, 1, 25, 12, 15, and 18. The sum of these numbers is 91. The digits of 91 added together equal 10, and the digits of 10 added together equal 1 — the numerological value of Taylor.
Baby names with a value of 1
Below you’ll find the most popular 1-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
1 via 10
The letters in the following baby names add up to 10, which reduces to one (1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 10)
Boy name (1 via 10)
Eda, Dea, Ebba, Adda, Ade
Ade
1 via 19
The letters in the following baby names add up to 19, which reduces to one (1+9=10; 1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 19)
Boy names (1 via 19)
Mae, Ema, Abbie, Alea, Aela
Adam, Jace, Dan, Jed, Jah
1 via 28
The letters in the following baby names add up to 28, which reduces to one (2+8=10; 1+0=1).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number one. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 1 being described as “leader,” “independent,” “determined,” “creative,” and “self-assured.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are a few things that are associated with the number 1:
Unity
Uniqueness
First place (as in sports)
Unicorn
Monolith
I kept the list short because you can associate the number 1 with just about anything. It’s universal, you might say. (See what I did there?)
What does the number 1 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.
Aaradhya – from the daughter of Indian actress Aishwarya Rai. The baby was born in late 2011, but not named until early 2012.
Catalaya, Cattaleya, Catalia, Katalaya, Katalia, etc. – variants of Cataleya, which debuted last year. (And which now happens to be skyrocketing in popularity.) Cataleya was a character in the 2011 movie Columbiana.
Daenerys – from “Game of Thrones” character Daenerys Targaryen. (Last year’s fifth-highest debut was her title, Khaleesi.)
Image: Adapted from LotusBud0048a (public domain) by Frank “Fg2” Gualtieri
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