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Katleen

Girls' name

English equivalent of Kathleen

Katleen has been given to 203 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1953, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Katleen, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katleen: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Kathleen

Ancient Greek

What Katleen means

Katleen is a English equivalent of Kathleen.

Origin, language, and formation

Katleen is used in Manx. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kathleen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 203 girls were recorded with the name Katleen between 1941 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1953; its best national rank was #3,014 in 1953.

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 Katleen?

Katleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katleen 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katleens were born

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

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
183
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Katleen 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 1953 (14)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,014
1953

Spellings of Katleen

Katleen is not the most common spelling — Kathleen is, with 65.4% against Katleen'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.

Katleen around the world

Where Katleen 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.

  • France
    1954–2023
    #4,814
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Katleen 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
#3,014
1953
Peak year
1953
14 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
203
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Katleen

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

KatheenKateleenKathreenKatherleenKathyleenKatnissKataleaKaturahKataliaKatrielKatoriKataleahKatheleenKatalenaKataleiaKaterynaKathileenKatreenKattleyaMahreenKatelenKatoriaKateshaKaterra

Sibling names for Katleen

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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