Cathrine
Cathrine was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 7,716 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,470 Americans named Cathrine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 43 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cathrine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cathrine mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Cathrine is “a female given name, variant of Katrine”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cathrine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,012, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
178 babies in 1956, the peak
Cathrine peaked in 1956, when 178 girls were given it, #723 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,012 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,864 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,058 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,165 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,198 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,440 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,272 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,599 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,356 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,133 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (138)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 17 | #7,454 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,264 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,726 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,133 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,813 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,465 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,228 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,894 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,581 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,234 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,378 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,514 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,880 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,162 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,882 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,320 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,700 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,460 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,661 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,186 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,159 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,575 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,885 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,945 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,099 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,904 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,087 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,787 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,056 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,017 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,778 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,716 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,588 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,619 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,421 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 82 | #1,255 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,428 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 83 | #1,294 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 109 | #1,049 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,247 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 104 | #1,003 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 107 | #988 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 114 | #959 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 119 | #969 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 114 | #997 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 131 | #926 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 150 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 130 | #933 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 165 | #794 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 173 | #754 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 140 | #861 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 178 | #723 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 155 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 131 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 128 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 112 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 114 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 117 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 98 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 72 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 78 | #1,003 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 73 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 54 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 55 | #1,053 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,226 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 43 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,196 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 44 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 58 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 58 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 54 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 62 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 71 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 73 | #830 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 87 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 68 | #906 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 84 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 81 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 88 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 85 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 77 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 105 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 92 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 86 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 85 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 93 | #722 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 72 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 74 | #770 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 56 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 44 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 46 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 38 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1910 | 45 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 25 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 20 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 34 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1906 | 28 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 34 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1904 | 17 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 22 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 20 | #775 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 13 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 27 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 16 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 25 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 13 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 18 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 24 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 22 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 25 | #561 | 0.12 |
| 1892 | 20 | #644 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 22 | #560 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 22 | #560 | 0.12 |
| 1889 | 14 | #691 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 19 | #577 | 0.11 |
| 1887 | 14 | #611 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 17 | #543 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 18 | #505 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 17 | #505 | 0.13 |
| 1883 | 19 | #436 | 0.17 |
| 1882 | 13 | #512 | 0.12 |
| 1881 | 18 | #395 | 0.20 |
| 1880 | 13 | #471 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cathrine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cathrine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 138 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cathrine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cathrine, and how old are they?
4,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 7,716 Americans ever recorded as Cathrine. The median Cathrine alive today is 61 years old; half are between 43 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 4,767 people named Cathrine (4,761 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,877 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 255 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,870 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,110 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 749 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 432 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 40 |
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).
Where are babies named Cathrine born?
The states with the most babies named Cathrine are California, New York and Texas, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 547 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 299 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 294 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 236 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 216 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 179 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 174 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 168 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 141 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 131 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Cathrine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cathrine is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Cathrine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,406,979 babies since 1880, Cathrine is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,684 babies recorded by SSA was a Cathrine (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 Cathrine
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 Cathrine and names like it
- Compare Cathrine and CatherineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCathrine peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cathrine since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Cathrine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Cathrine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cathrine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.