Kataya
Kataya is a village development committee in Rupandehi District in Lumbini Province of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3507 people living in 532 individual households.
Meaning & Origin of Kataya
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kataya is a village development committee in Rupandehi District in Lumbini Province of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3507 people living in 532 individual households.
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The Story of Kataya
American parents first put Kataya on the record books as a baby girl name in 1981, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2000, when 10 Katayas were born — ranking #9,163 that year. About 56% of every Kataya on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Kataya last appeared in the published SSA data in 2010, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 112 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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About the name Kataya
Kataya is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1981 and has accumulated 112 births in the dataset. Kataya's peak popularity came in 2000 when it ranked #9,163. Use the chart and map above to compare Kataya's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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