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Cathrine

Girls' name

Form of Katherine

Cathrine has been given to 7,716 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1956, with 178 recorded.

Babies named Cathrine, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cathrine: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cathrine means

Cathrine is a form of Katherine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cathrine is used in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Cathrine is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine and Katrine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,716 girls were recorded with the name Cathrine between 1880 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 178 in 1956; its best national rank was #395 in 1881.

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 Cathrine?

Cathrine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cathrine 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cathrine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cathrines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cathrine was born before 1955 — so the typical Cathrine is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,513
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1950s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (1,413).

Is Cathrine 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (178)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#395
1881

Spellings of Cathrine

Cathrine is not the most common spelling — Catherine is, with 46.0% against Cathrine's 0.53%.

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 Cathrine is used

Across 1910–2025, Cathrine was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 46,272 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 14,286
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 16,667
  3. 3Georgia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 50,000

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. Cathrine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cathrine around the world

Where Cathrine 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2010
    #3,533
    in 2010
  • Scotland
    1976–1992
    #641
    in 1992
  • Ireland
    1970–1979
    #523
    in 1979
  • Norway
    1880–2020
    #471
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #2,611
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1949–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Cathrine

People whose public names include Cathrine, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cathrine in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cathrine. Linked forms have their own page here.

KatyCarinKarenKarinKatiaKatieKatjaKatriKatyaCathieCatrinKareenKathieKatrinCathrynKatalinKatrinaKatrineCatalinaCatarinaCaterinaKatarinaKaterinaKathrine

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cathrine 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
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Best rank ever
#395
1881
Peak year
1956
178 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
7,716
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cathrine

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

CatharineCataleyaCatarinaCaterinaCatrinaGermaineEmmalineCattleyaCathleenCoralineCatalinaCatherineCharlineEmmelineCathrynSunshineDelphineMadalineRosalineKarolineJoselineKathrineCathlineMarceline

Names with a curve like Cathrine

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cathrine, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VenitaCarmelFeliceAlfredaAlethaCarmelitaTwylaTheressaPattieJeanettaTrevaGeorgette

Sibling names for Cathrine

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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