Katharyn
Katharyn was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 1,614 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Katharyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 32 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katharyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Katharyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,770, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1987, the peak
Katharyn peaked in 1987, when 36 girls were given it, #2,742 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #15,770 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,956 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,726 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,219 | 9.5 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,983 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,586 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,481 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,028 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,864 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,614 | 14.4 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 16 | #6,632 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,133 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,714 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,728 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,200 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,387 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,562 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,718 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,298 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,868 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,315 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,351 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,426 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,742 | 20.7 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,692 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,039 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,461 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,814 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,122 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,066 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,056 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,311 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,150 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,520 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,284 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,170 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,217 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,769 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,674 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,738 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,471 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,222 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,883 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,375 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,656 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,128 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,203 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,897 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,546 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,559 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,435 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,039 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,455 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,449 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,986 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,296 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,404 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,012 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,114 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,020 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,137 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,175 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,244 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,577 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,825 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,283 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,154 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,158 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,092 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,125 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,677 | 6.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,669 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,297 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,979 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,585 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,039 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,588 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,748 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,354 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,503 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,255 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,449 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,782 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,241 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,862 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,064 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,675 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,989 | 16.7 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,857 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,780 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,952 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,515 | 24.2 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,873 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,610 | 22.0 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,089 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,781 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,433 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,777 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,596 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,698 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,415 | 28.8 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,455 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,841 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,358 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,423 | 29.1 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,269 | 33.4 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,435 | 27.1 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,359 | 29.4 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,590 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 11 | #930 | 51.7 |
| 1891 | 10 | #921 | 53.9 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,274 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,382 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,211 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,225 | 34.3 |
| 1885 | 6 | #985 | 45.1 |
| 1881 | 5 | #888 | 54.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katharyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katharyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katharyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katharyn, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 1,614 Americans ever recorded as Katharyn. The median Katharyn alive today is 41 years old; half are between 32 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,085 people named Katharyn (1,080 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,092 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 45 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 188 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 165 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 195 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 501,539 babies since 1880, Katharyn is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 468 babies recorded by SSA was a Katharyn (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 Katharyn
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 Katharyn and names like it
- Compare Katharyn and KathrynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKatharyn peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katharyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Katharyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Katharyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.