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Kathlene

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kathlene has been given to 3,500 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 1950, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Kathlene, 2014

1 in 463,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kathlene: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kathlene means

Kathlene is a given name.

The naming story behind Kathlene

Wikidata records Kathlene as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q72528544, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,500 girls were recorded with the name Kathlene between 1913 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 120 in 1950; its best national rank was #791 in 1950.

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.

How common is Kathlene?

Kathlene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 463,000
8 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
321,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kathlene 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 2014 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 321,172 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kathlene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kathlenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kathlene was born before 1960 — so the typical Kathlene is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,642
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (876).

Is Kathlene 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 1950 (120)
Years since peak
75
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#791
1950

Spellings of Kathlene

Kathlene is not the most common spelling — Kathleen is, with 94.2% against Kathlene's 0.46%.

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 Kathlene is used

Across 1910–2025, Kathlene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 109,670 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 50,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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

Kathlene around the world

Where Kathlene 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
    1988–1988
    #492
    in 1988
  • France
    1980–1997
    #3,642
    in 1997
  • Canada
    1991–1993
    #2,149
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1947–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kathlene

People whose public names include Kathlene, 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.

Kathlene 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
#791
1950
Peak year
1950
120 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
3,500
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kathlene

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

KatherinKathleeneKathereneKataleyaKathreneKaterinaKatalinaKathaleneKatarinaKathlynKatharinaKatheryneKatheleneKatherynKatherinaKathrineKatalynaKathryneKateriKattieKatianaKaterinKatalayaKatharyn

Names with a curve like Kathlene

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

CherrieDreamaMickieTonieGarySherilynJacqueNildaMartyRegenaDarnellJoellen

Sibling names for Kathlene

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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