Meh. Kinda. The "Ă" is supposedly pronounced like "uh," and the "I" in Romanian is difficult to explain because it's sort of halfway between the sounds of I as heard in "fIsh" and ee like in "hEEd."
-- Anonymous User 7/3/2007
Catalin is the name of a Basque girl in Roland Smith's book "Zach's Lie".
-- Anonymous User 6/9/2009
I think it's interesting that this is a masculine form of Katherine, but I don't like this name itself.
The feminine form of this name is Cãtãlina.