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Katharyn

Girls' name

Variant of Katherine

Katharyn has been given to 1,614 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1987, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Katharyn, 2011

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katharyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katharyn means

Katharyn is a variant of Katherine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Katharyn is used in English.

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Katharyn → 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, 1,614 girls were recorded with the name Katharyn between 1881 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1987; its best national rank was #888 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 Katharyn?

Katharyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katharyn 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 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katharyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katharyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katharyn was born before 1967 — so the typical Katharyn is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,014
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Choose a decade

1980s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Katharyn 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (36)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#888
1881

Spellings of Katharyn

Katharyn is not the most common spelling — Kathryn is, with 81.4% against Katharyn's 0.29%.

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 Katharyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Katharyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 671,180 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 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. Katharyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katharyn around the world

Where Katharyn 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
    2000–2000
    #3,912
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1961–1984
    #661
    in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Katharyn 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
#888
1881
Peak year
1987
36 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
1,614
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Katharyn

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

KatherynKatrynKaterynKatherinaKatherinKatalynaKatheryneKatharinaKataleyaKatianaKaterinKatalayaKatieannKattleyaKathiaKataraKatanaKaterinaKatalinaKatarinaKaterineKathlynKateriKataleia

Sibling names for Katharyn

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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