Entry № 2819 · Greek origin

Ekaterina Ekaterina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-kah-teh-REE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Pure (Russian Catherine the Great)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "pure (russian catherine the great)".

Ekaterina is from the Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterinē — pure) — from Greek katharos (pure). Ekaterina is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek + Russian Orthodox heritage.

Pure (Russian Catherine the Great) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Αἰκατερίνη
Transliteration
Aikaterinē
Pronunciation
/ ɛ.kə.tɛˈriː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ekaterina stands.

Ekaterina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ekaterinas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Catherine of Alexandria / Catherine the Great
Christian martyr + Catherine wheel + Saint Catherine's Monastery Mount Sinai UNESCO + Catherine the Great Empress of Russia 1762-1796 + Catherine de' Medici Queen of France.
c. 287 CE + 1729 – 1796

Names connected to Ekaterina.

The number behind Ekaterina.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ekaterina reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.