Katrina is a variant of Catherine — from the Greek katharos (pure). **A top-300 US baby name from 1985 to 2007, peaking at #135 in 1986**. **Katrina Kaif (born 1983)** — born Katrina Turquotte — **British-Indian actress; one of the highest-paid and most-followed Indian actresses of the 2010s-2020s; over 75 million Instagram followers**. **Forbes India Celebrity 100 every year 2010-2023**. **Won a Filmfare Award for Best Actress in *Zero* (2018); Padma Shri-considered for *Tiger Zinda Hai*'s Bollywood action revolution**. **Married actor Vicky Kaushal in December 2021**. **The name retreated from popular American use in the late 2000s after Hurricane Katrina (2005) — one of the most destructive Atlantic hurricanes in US history, killing 1,800 people**. **Katrina van Tassel** — heroine of Washington Irving's *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow* (1820).
Featured throughout 2000s-2020s Bollywood.
Katrina reduces to one — the number of Bollywood star.