Baby Name Polls. I would consider 'Ka TREE na' a simplification...Ca-TREE-er-na, with a soft 'o' is the authentic version. I've been told that some Scots pronounce 'Fiona' as 'FEE-er-na' too... same soft o sound. For example, John and Mary are common names for a brother and sister. Simply enter names you like and let this genius technology inspire you to find the perfect name. i have an aunt called Catriona and and a sister with that as a middle name and you don't pronounce it Ka TREE na. Well, I guess I would go with Katriana which would close. Baby Name Lists Name Tryouts Name Time Machine Similar Names Rhyming Names Names Combinations. This, along with Caitlin and Catalina, is one of my favourite variations of the name. – Pronunciation is like the more phonetic Katrina. Both Caitriona and Catriona are commonly heard in Scotland and Ireland. Would you like to follow Catriona? Please add to or correct the information provided by other members of the Nameberry community. Female. print. i live in Scotland. i would love to see this entry changed to at least include the soft o pronunciation as an option! This may be the name on which we get the most personally-based "corrections" on the pronunciation. We're excited that you have an opinion about the name Catriona. Lilianne. Am I doing it wrong? The name became popular after the Crusaders brought home stories about the colorful fourth century martyr, Catherine of Alexandria. Female. I've always pronounced it ca-tree-OH-na. Click a name to browse or + to add it to the search list. If you didn't find an alternative name that you like better than Catriona, try our name generator. See More Names Like Katriona ». Catriona is similar to these given names: Muriel (given name), Cathleen, Gráinne (given name) and more. The name Caitriona is a girl's name of Gaelic, Scottish origin meaning "pure". It looks lovely but most people would get so confused with that o. Catherine has so many interesting variations!! clear Agreed. "\n". Beautiful. I have met anyone in England or America who can say it correctly. But you don't need to trawl through long lists of baby names any more! Its later popularity increased following the success of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1893 Catriona, the sequel to Kidnapped. These 16 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Catriona. © 2020 Nameberry.com. Selenia. Susanne. Unique International Variations of Katherine, Stunning Spanish Names for Girls and Boys, Fresh Berry Names of April: Amity Sky to Zeke Iron. group Nameberry is a registered trademark of Nameberry, LLC. This is my name, given to me to honour our Scottish ancestry, although we lived in England. If you enter John into Magic Baby Names, Mary will appear as a suggestion. Here it is supposed to be pronounced where the o is soft like on Cat ri on na not Cat ri O na or Katrina. Find other names based on Katriona using our baby name generator . It allows you to go beyond the similarities of a name, which can provide a lot of inspiration! Good luck. And Claire! In the Greek origin, Catriona means "Pure; Innocent". Catri? Actress Caitrona Balfe has gained recognition for her role on Outlander. Love Outlander. So, the obvious nickname is Cat, but what if you don't want the obvious nickname? In the Irish origin, Catriona means "Pure". Suggestions please! The name was brought to Ireland by the Anglo-Normans, and is the source of nicknames Cait, Caitin, Caitlin and Triona. sort I'd write the pronunciation as ka-TREE-uh-na so there's the subtle o sound, but definitely not ka-tree-OH-na. or Iona? – I understand what you mean about the pronunciation but I also live in Scotland and most of the Catrionas I know just pronounce it like Katrina, I only occasionally hear the Cat-ri-on-na pronunciation, it seems more like an accent thing to me. We recently changed it BACK to ka-TREE-na as we'd gotten two notes from Catrionas saying that was the way it was pronounced. How? Pronunciation is like Katrina. With this being the first name of the actress in the phenomenally popular Outlander TV show, I'm sure we'll hear more about it. Baby Name Generators ... What does the name Catriona mean? Girls names like Catriona: Fiona, Apple, Siobhan, Sinead, ... Magic Baby Names is a unique search site with 101,335 names collected from 2,542,706 family trees, containing 125,549,762 people. – Pregnancy. Tria? Hollyannabell is exactly right on the pronunciation...and about the fact that no one outside of Scotland can pronounce it. Nameberry is a registered trademark of Nameberry, LLC. Magic Baby Names is a unique search site with 101,424 names collected from 2,566,111 family trees, containing 126,705,405 people. Caitriona Balfe turned me onto the loveliness of this name. Maybe Caty? This Katherine variation, used through Ireland and Scotland, is pronounced as Katrina -- kat-tree-na. The name Catriona is a girl's name of Gaelic origin meaning "pure". How do your aunt and sister pronounce it? And where do you live (as I think that's important to pronunciation differences)? (Bane of my existence as a namenerd!) It is run together softly so the o is only just heard. It's a beautiful looking and sounding name when pronounced with the soft o. Ka-tree-na just doesn't do it justice- it really loses its distinctively Gaelic, lilting softness. Magic Baby Names uses the family trees from Family Echo to learn which names often appear together. Click the ♡ next to a name to add it to your favorites. You will receive an email (no more than once per day) summarizing any new mentions of Catriona on Nameberry. 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