Kathelene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kathelene has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1951, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Kathelene, 1954
1 in 442,000
Kathelene over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kathelene?
Kathelene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1954
- 1 in 442,000
- 9 of 3,979,464 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 216,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1954
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 306,485 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kathelene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1954 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 306,485 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kathelene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kathelenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kathelene was born before 1940 — so the typical Kathelene is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 35
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Kathelene 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 1951 (11)
- Years since peak
- 74
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kathelene
Kathelene is not the most common spelling — Katherine is, with 98.4% against Kathelene's 0.02%.
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.
Kathelene around the world
Where Kathelene 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.
- South Australia1962–1962#647in 1962
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kathelene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kathelene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kathelene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.