Catherin
Catherin was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 1,121 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catherin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Catherin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,168, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
143 babies in 1989, the peak
Catherin peaked in 1989, when 143 girls were given it, #1,148 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #16,168 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,363 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,872 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,084 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,452 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,458 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,293 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,915 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,134 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,619 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 11 | #10,262 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,177 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,316 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,537 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,646 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,502 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,860 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,258 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,889 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,622 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,954 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,213 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,720 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,226 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,092 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,594 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,988 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,970 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 143 | #1,148 | 77.6 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,790 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,555 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,658 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,661 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,586 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,285 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,729 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,519 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,420 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,725 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,835 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,108 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,121 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,757 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,158 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,646 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,842 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,063 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,468 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,329 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,039 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,537 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,897 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,125 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,647 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,177 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,473 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,945 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,123 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,390 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,505 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,730 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,643 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,178 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,726 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,396 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,068 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,701 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,658 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,380 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,476 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,712 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,641 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,167 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,860 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,795 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,021 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,179 | 7.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,335 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,762 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,302 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,377 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,908 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,621 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,538 | 6.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,436 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,815 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,592 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,900 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,718 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,687 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,034 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,714 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,082 | 5.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,936 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,554 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,776 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,307 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,724 | 10.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,258 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Catherin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Catherin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Catherin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catherin, and how old are they?
An estimated 874 Americans named Catherin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 26 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,384 people named Catherin (1,383 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 918 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Catherin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Where are babies named Catherin born?
The states with the most babies named Catherin are New York, California and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 136 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Catherin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Catherin is most over-represented in New York: since 1913 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Catherin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Catherin?
Catherin is a less common spelling of Katheryn: SSA has recorded 1,121 Catherin and 15,220 Katheryn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,653 babies since 1880, Catherin is the seventh most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 87 babies recorded by SSA was a Catherin (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.
More about Catherin and names like it
- Compare Catherin and KatherynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCatherin peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catherin since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Catherin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Catherin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.