Marykathryn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marykathryn has been given to 507 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1994, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Marykathryn, 2024
1 in 557,000
Marykathryn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Marykathryn?
Marykathryn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marykathryn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marykathryn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marykathryns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marykathryn was born before 1996 — so the typical Marykathryn is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 507
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (156).
Is Marykathryn 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 1994 (20)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.9% average annual change
Where Marykathryn is used
Across 1910–2025, Marykathryn was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,680,621 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Marykathryn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marykathryn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marykathryn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marykathryn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.