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Kathrin

Girls' name

Short form of Katharina

Kathrin has been given to 1,214 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 1990, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Kathrin, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kathrin: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Katharina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kathrin means

Kathrin is a short form of Katharina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kathrin is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ka.ˈtʁiːn/ for Kathrin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kathrin → Katharina → Katarina → Αἰκατερίνη. The family’s proposed meaning is “Hecate or each of the two”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements Hekátē and hekáteros.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katharina and Katrin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,214 girls were recorded with the name Kathrin between 1914 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,997 in 1952.

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 Kathrin?

Kathrin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kathrin 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kathrin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kathrins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kathrin was born before 1976 — so the typical Kathrin is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,064
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Choose a decade

1990s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (206).

Is Kathrin 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 1990 (36)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,997
1952

Spellings of Kathrin

Kathrin is not the most common spelling — Katherine is, with 45.5% against Kathrin's 0.08%.

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 Kathrin is used

Across 1910–2025, Kathrin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 557,274 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Kathrin around the world

Where Kathrin 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
    2008–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • Norway
    1880–1990
    #636
    in 1990
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #1,902
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1952–1973
    #695
    in 1973

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

Kathrin 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
#1,997
1952
Peak year
1990
36 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,214
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kathrin

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

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Sibling names for Kathrin

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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