Catheryn
Catheryn was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 1,733 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Catheryn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 29 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catheryn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Catheryn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Catheryn is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Catherine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Catheryn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,011, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1950, the peak
Catheryn peaked in 1950, when 31 girls were given it, #1,683 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,011 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,139 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,285 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,085 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,197 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,439 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,861 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,972 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,108 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,598 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 14 | #8,608 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,043 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,629 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,276 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,078 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,939 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,038 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,175 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,260 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,623 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,919 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,719 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,545 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,374 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,449 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,351 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,074 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,019 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,696 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,672 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,455 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,222 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,485 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,255 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,312 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,556 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,763 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,582 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,875 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,257 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,417 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,700 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,171 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,049 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,502 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,418 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,966 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,225 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,973 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,628 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,685 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,920 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,565 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,717 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,827 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,306 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,681 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,378 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,995 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,586 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,041 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,326 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,910 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,127 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,875 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,981 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,971 | 13.9 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,683 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,889 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,015 | 13.5 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,363 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,490 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,760 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,169 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,574 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,988 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,022 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,253 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,756 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,355 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,212 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,399 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,762 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,103 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,728 | 19.8 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,382 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,446 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,711 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,948 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,792 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,626 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,628 | 21.9 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,803 | 18.9 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,151 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,482 | 11.6 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,841 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,777 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,631 | 21.7 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,573 | 23.0 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,545 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,439 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,746 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,687 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,494 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,539 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,190 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,384 | 28.7 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,867 | 18.8 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,688 | 21.8 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,510 | 25.1 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,622 | 21.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Catheryn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Catheryn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Catheryn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catheryn, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 1,733 Americans ever recorded as Catheryn. The median Catheryn alive today is 47 years old; half are between 29 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 1,291 people named Catheryn (1,291 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,189 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 63 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 305 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 198 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 253 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 245 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 35 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 499,488 babies since 1880, Catheryn is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 468 babies recorded by SSA was a Catheryn (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 Catheryn
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 Catheryn and names like it
- Compare Catheryn and KathrynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCatheryn peaked in 1950.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catheryn since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Catheryn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Catheryn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.