Cathern
Cathern was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 1,080 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cathern by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cathern?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,093, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1930, the peak
Cathern peaked in 1930, when 29 girls were given it, #1,439 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #12,093 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,903 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,284 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,395 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,239 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,038 | 5.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,953 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,757 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,396 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,491 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 10 | #5,102 | 5.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,138 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,228 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,539 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,888 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,936 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,038 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,290 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,103 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,337 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,230 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,422 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,636 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,481 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,179 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,524 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,210 | 11.9 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,590 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,923 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,145 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,605 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,289 | 10.7 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,448 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,619 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,168 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,162 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,435 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,104 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,443 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,049 | 14.6 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,354 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,211 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,545 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,115 | 14.3 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,779 | 18.2 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,979 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,964 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,122 | 14.1 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,439 | 25.8 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,838 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,968 | 16.5 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,625 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,729 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,900 | 17.3 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,419 | 12.0 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,684 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,614 | 22.5 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,729 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,590 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,866 | 17.7 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,703 | 19.9 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,723 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,412 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,893 | 17.3 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,493 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,790 | 19.2 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,412 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,684 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,971 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,493 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,898 | 17.9 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,837 | 19.1 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,720 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,976 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,640 | 21.5 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,586 | 21.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,632 | 21.4 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,039 | 39.2 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,310 | 28.0 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,051 | 41.1 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,052 | 38.8 |
| 1882 | 6 | #828 | 55.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cathern a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cathern has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cathern: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cathern, and how old are they?
An estimated 377 Americans named Cathern and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 525 people named Cathern (525 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 464 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,611 babies since 1880, Cathern is the eighth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 87 babies recorded by SSA was a Cathern (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 Cathern
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 Cathern and names like it
- Compare Cathern and CathrynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sCathern peaked in 1930.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cathern since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Cathern.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cathern alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.