Kateleen — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kateleen

The Social Security Administration has registered 164 babies named Kateleen between 1993 and 2015, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kateleen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 15 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kateleen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 91 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kateleen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kateleen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kateleen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 164 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.