Catrice
Catrice was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 1,005 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catrice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Catrice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,870, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1971, the peak
Catrice peaked in 1971, when 55 girls were given it, #1,665 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #15,870 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,637 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,854 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,879 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,833 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,117 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,586 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,282 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,348 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,100 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 9 | #8,894 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,375 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,676 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 26 | #3,980 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,022 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,821 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,533 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,094 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,264 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,916 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,868 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,926 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,257 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,102 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,934 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,493 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,280 | 26.2 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,949 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,725 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,391 | 23.2 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,811 | 35.0 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,445 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,757 | 34.3 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,655 | 35.5 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,665 | 33.1 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,761 | 29.2 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,403 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,060 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,362 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,762 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,978 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Catrice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Catrice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Catrice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catrice, and how old are they?
An estimated 955 Americans named Catrice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 39 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 842 people named Catrice (842 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 969 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,339 babies since 1880, Catrice is the second most given (30% 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 Catrice
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 Catrice and names like it
- Compare Catrice and KatriceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCatrice peaked in 1971.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catrice since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Catrice.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Catrice alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.