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Katrin

Girls' name

Possibly Hecate or each of the two, through Katarina

Katrin has been given to 1,091 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1977, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Katrin, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katrin: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly Hecate or each of the two, through Katarina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katrin means

Katrin belongs to the name family reached through Katrin → Katarina → Αἰκατερίνη. Its meaning is “Hecate or each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Katrin is used in Estonian, Faroese, German and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katariina, Katharina, Katarina and Αἰκατερίνη.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,091 girls were recorded with the name Katrin between 1951 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,395 in 1977.

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 Katrin?

Katrin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katrin 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katrin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katrins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katrin was born before 1985 — so the typical Katrin is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
19.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,091
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Choose a decade

1970s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (208).

Is Katrin 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (37)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,395
1977

Spellings of Katrin

Katrin is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 43.1% against Katrin's 0.05%.

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 Katrin is used

Across 1910–2025, Katrin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 570,383 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Katrin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katrin around the world

Where Katrin 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
    1996–2023
    #4,057
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1998–1998
    #558
    in 1998
  • Ireland
    1996–1996
    #534
    in 1996
  • France
    1969–2021
    #6,056
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2007
    #543
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #2,939
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1958–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Katrin 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
#2,395
1977
Peak year
1977
37 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,091
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Katrin

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

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Sibling names for Katrin

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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