Katarina (given name)

Katarina^[1] (Cyrillic: Катарина^[1]) is a feminine given name. It is the standard Swedish, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian form of Katherine, and a variant spelling in several other languages.^[2]

In Croatia, it is the fourth most common female given name, or third if combined with the short form Kata.^[3] Historically in Croatia, the name Katarina has been among the most common feminine given names in the decades up to 1939, and then again between 1990 and 1999.^[4] In Serbia it is within the 10 most popular names for girls born since 1991.^[5]

Notable people with the given name include:

In acting:

• Katarina Ewerlöf, Swedish actress
• Katarina Čas, Slovenian actress
• Katarína Kolníková, Slovak actress
• Katarina Radivojević, Serbian actress

In royalty:

• Katarina Eriksdotter, daughter of the Swedish king Eric the Saint
• Katarina Kosača, Queen of Bosnia as the wife of King Stephen Thomas, the penultimate Bosnian sovereign
• Katarina Stenbock, third and last consort of Gustav I of Sweden and the Queen of Sweden

In sports:

• Katarina Witt, German figure skater
• Katarina Waters, English professional wrestler
• Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian professional tennis player
• Katarina Tomašević, Serbian handball player
• Katarina Timglas, Swedish ice hockey player
• Katarina Lavtar, Slovenian alpine skier
• Katarina Krpež Slezak, Serbian handball player
• Katarina Vukomanović, Serbian volleyball player
• Katarina Ježić, Croatian handball player
• Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English track and field athlete
• Katarina Zavatska, Ukrainian tennis player
• Katarina Wolfkostin, American ice dancer

In other fields:

• Katarina Carroll, Australian police officer
• Katarina Cicak, Bosnian physicist
• Katarina Frostenson, Swedish writer
• Katarina Köhler, Swedish politician
• Katarina Konstantinović, Serbian noblewoman
• Katarina Ivanovska, Macedonian model
• Katarina Kruhonja, Croatian peace activist
• Katarina Luhr, Swedish politician

In fiction:

• Katarina, a character in the television series Doctor Who
• Katarina Alves, a character in the video game series Tekken
• Katarina, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
• Katarina Cott, a character in the video game Suikoden IV
• Katarina de Leon, a character in the video game Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat
• Katarina du Couteau, a character in the video game League of Legends
• Katarina Claes, a character in the light novel My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
• Katarina, a character in the video game Conduit 2