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Cathrin

Girls' name

Variant of Katrin

Cathrin has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1920, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Cathrin, 1980

1 in 689,000

Cathrin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cathrin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Katrin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cathrin means

Cathrin is a variant of Katrin.

Origin, language, and formation

Cathrin is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katrin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 33 girls were recorded with the name Cathrin between 1916 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1920; its best national rank was #4,023 in 1920.

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 Cathrin?

Cathrin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 689,000
5 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only
1 in 332,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,468 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cathrin 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 1980 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 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cathrin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cathrins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cathrin was born before 1951 — so the typical Cathrin is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
21
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Cathrin 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 1920 (7)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,023
1920

Spellings of Cathrin

Cathrin is not the most common spelling — Catherine is, with 54.7% against Cathrin's <0.01%.

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.

Cathrin around the world

Where Cathrin 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.

  • Norway
    1880–1995
    #606
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1959–1961
    #665
    in 1961

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

Cathrin 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
#4,023
1920
Peak year
1920
7 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cathrin

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

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Sibling names for Cathrin

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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