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] and in Serbia it is within the 10 most popular names for girls born since 1991.[4] It may refer to:
Pronunciation | Kat-a-ree-na |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Slavic |
Meaning | Pure |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Cyrillic: Катарина |
Variant form(s) | Katharina |
Nickname(s) | Kata (Ката), Kaća (Каћа) |
Related names | Catarina |
See also | Katerina, Katherine, Katrina |
In acting:
- Katarina Ewerlöf, Swedish actress
- Katarina Radivojević, Serbian actress
- Katarina Čas, Actress
In royalty:
- Katarina Eriksdotter, the daughter of the Swedish king Eric the Saint
- Katarina Stenbock, the third and last consort of Gustav I of Sweden and the Queen of Sweden
- Katarina Kosača, was Queen of Bosnia as the wife of King Stephen Thomas, the penultimate Bosnian sovereign
In sports:
- Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English track and field athlete
- Katarina Krpež Slezak, Serbian handball player
- Katarina Lavtar, Slovenian alpine skier
- Katarina Lazović, Serbian volleyball player
- Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian professional tennis player who lives in Dubai
- Katarina Timglas, Swedish ice hockey player
- Katarina Tomašević, Serbian handball player
- Katarina Vukomanović, Serbian volleyball player
- Katarina Waters, English professional wrestler
- Katarina Witt, German figure skater
- Katarina Wolfkostin, American ice dancer
In other fields:
- Katarina Carroll, an Australian police officer
- Katarina Cicak, Physicist
- Katarina Frostenson, Swedish writer
- Katarina Ivanovska, Macedonian model
- Katarina Konstantinović, Serbian noblewoman
- Katarina Kruhonja, Croatian peace activist
In fiction:
- Katarina (Doctor Who), a character from the television series Doctor Who
- Katarina Alves, a character from the video game series Tekken
- Katarina Cott, character from Suikoden IV
- Katarina de Leon, the protagonist in the video game Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat
- Katarina, the Sinister Blade, a playable champion character in the MOBA video game League of Legends
- Katarina Claes, the protagonist in the light novel My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
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