Girls' name · since 1925
Cathreen
15 babies named Cathreen in U.S. Social Security records since 1925, with the highest year being 1925. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #49,534 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 15
- born since 1925
- 1950s
- peak decade
Cathreen sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 15 recorded since 1925.
Cathreen has 15 recorded births among girls since 1925, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1925 to 1956.
- #49,534 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 15 born since 1925
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cathreen ranks #49,534 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 15 born since 1925, peaking in the 1950s.
- #49,534 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 15
- born since 1925
- 1950s
- peak decade
Cathreen's 15 recorded births place it above 30.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cathreen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Cathreen's full recorded timeline at 1954, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1925, with just 5 recorded births.
Cathreen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1925–1956
- Peak year (1925)
- 5
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
Cathreen by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (10 births, 67% of the file).
1950s was Cathreen's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Cathreen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s
1920s
5 births
- 1950s
1950s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 10 births (67% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cathreen: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1925)
Similar record span (~31 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1925–1956 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cathreen draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.