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Catherin

Girls' name

Variant of Katherine

Catherin has been given to 1,121 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 143 recorded.

Babies named Catherin, 2018

1 in 703,000

Catherin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Catherin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Catherin means

Catherin is a variant of Katherine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Catherin is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæθ.ə.ɹɪn/ and /ˈkæθ.ɹɪn/ for Catherin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Catherin → Katherine → Catherine. The family’s proposed meaning is “each of the two”, recorded in English with the source elements hekáteros.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,121 girls were recorded with the name Catherin between 1913 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 143 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,148 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Catherin?

Catherin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Catherin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catherin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Catherins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Catherin was born before 1976 — so the typical Catherin is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
878
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (207).

Is Catherin rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (143)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,148
1989

Spellings of Catherin

Catherin is not the most common spelling — Catherine is, with 48.1% against Catherin's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Catherin is used

Across 1910–2025, Catherin was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 259,873 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Catherin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Catherin around the world

Where Catherin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Ireland
    1967–1967
    #253
    in 1967
  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #647
    in 1962

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Catherin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,148
1989
Peak year
1989
143 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
1,121
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Catherin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Catherin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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