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Kathrine

#7,310 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Katherine

Kathrine has been given to 15,775 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,310 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 275 recorded.

Babies named Kathrine, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kathrine: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kathrine means

Kathrine is a form of Katherine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kathrine is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine, Catherine and Katrine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,775 girls were recorded with the name Kathrine between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 275 in 1956; its best national rank was #331 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,484 in 2020 to #7,310 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,210 in 2015 to #7,310 in 2025.

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 Kathrine?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,310
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kathrine 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 2025 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kathrine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kathrines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kathrine was born before 1966 — so the typical Kathrine is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
14.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
11,316
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Choose a decade

1950s — 14.5% of all recorded uses (2,288).

Is Kathrine 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
−1,435
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−826
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,100
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.5%
Peak was 1956 (275)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#331
1882

Spellings of Kathrine

Kathrine is not the most common spelling — Catherine is, with 33.1% against Kathrine's 0.78%.

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 Kathrine is used

Across 1910–2025, Kathrine was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 16,589 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 9,091
  2. 2Texas1 in 10,000
  3. 3California1 in 11,111
  4. 4Georgia1 in 11,111
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 11,111
  6. 6Colorado1 in 12,500
  7. 7Michigan1 in 12,500
  8. 8Alabama1 in 14,286

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

Kathrine around the world

Where Kathrine 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
    1996–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    1979–1995
    #639
    in 1995
  • Ireland
    1976–1983
    #476
    in 1983
  • France
    1961–1961
    #1,316
    in 1961
  • Norway
    1880–2020
    #435
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1944–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kathrine

People whose public names include Kathrine, 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.

Kathrine in other languages

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

KatyCarinKarenKarinKatiaKatieKatjaKatriKatyaCathieCatrinKareenKathieKatrinCathrynKatalinKatrinaKatrineCatalinaCatarinaCaterinaCathrineKatarinaKaterina

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

Kathrine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,310
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 826
Best rank ever
#331
1882
Peak year
1956
275 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,775
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Kathrine

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

KatharineKatherynKaterineKatarinaKatalinaKatelynnKaterinaKatherineKatrineKataleyaKatherinKatlynDelphineJeannineKathlineKathlynGermaineEmmalineJaquelineFrancineLoraineCoralineAngelineYasmine

Names with a curve like Kathrine

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

CathrynKatherynElviaRosannaMargaritaPortiaCharmaineAngelitaRoxannaJanellRoseannaSusanna

Sibling names for Kathrine

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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