Cathlene
Cathlene was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 829 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cathlene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cathlene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,590, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1957, the peak
Cathlene peaked in 1957, when 37 girls were given it, #1,784 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #16,590 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,877 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,707 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,999 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,460 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,388 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,206 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,565 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,557 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,729 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | #8,472 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,876 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,585 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,764 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,970 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,251 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,460 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,588 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,494 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,262 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,817 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,235 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,115 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,572 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,064 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,974 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,371 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,280 | 17.0 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,595 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,946 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,253 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,376 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,827 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,925 | 17.8 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,656 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,918 | 16.8 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,510 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,784 | 18.1 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,838 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,942 | 15.3 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,245 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,369 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,863 | 15.6 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,186 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,129 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,280 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,423 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,039 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,491 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,170 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,419 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,538 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,187 | 4.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,336 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,140 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cathlene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cathlene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cathlene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cathlene, and how old are they?
An estimated 688 Americans named Cathlene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 53 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 775 people named Cathlene (775 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 730 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above 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 Cathlene?
Cathlene is a less common spelling of Kathlene: SSA has recorded 829 Cathlene and 3,500 Kathlene since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,646 babies since 1880, Cathlene is the second most given (15% of them).
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 Cathlene
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 Cathlene and names like it
- Compare Cathlene and KathleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCathlene peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cathlene since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Cathlene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cathlene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.