Cathaleen
Cathaleen was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 323 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cathaleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cathaleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,603, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1951, the peak
Cathaleen peaked in 1951, when 19 girls were given it, #2,321 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #10,603 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,493 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,497 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,145 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,467 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,699 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,692 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,883 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,663 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,575 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #6,683 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,486 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,277 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,868 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,339 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,635 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,409 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,347 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,117 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,590 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,321 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,249 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,292 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,989 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,474 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,711 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,784 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,714 | 3.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,456 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,902 | 5.4 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,307 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,505 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,653 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,087 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,063 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,074 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,935 | 4.4 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,392 | 7.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cathaleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cathaleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cathaleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cathaleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 216 Americans named Cathaleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 62 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 227 people named Cathaleen (227 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Cathaleen?
Cathaleen is a less common spelling of Kathaleen: SSA has recorded 323 Cathaleen and 4,136 Kathaleen since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 751,560 babies since 1880, Cathaleen is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 211 babies recorded by SSA was a Cathaleen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cathaleen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cathaleen and names like it
- Compare Cathaleen and KathaleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCathaleen peaked in 1951.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Cathaleen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cathaleen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.