Katheleen
Katheleen was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 1,230 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katheleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Katheleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,982, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1952, the peak
Katheleen peaked in 1952, when 33 girls were given it, #1,726 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #18,982 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,512 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,812 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,449 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,020 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,557 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,593 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,878 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,598 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,502 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #12,548 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,141 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,085 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,654 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,065 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,765 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,241 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,301 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,748 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,050 | 5.3 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,111 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,722 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,731 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,268 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,343 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,653 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,729 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,151 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,856 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,686 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,276 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,889 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,144 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,387 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,942 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,098 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,983 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,956 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,655 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,630 | 11.2 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,121 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,272 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,424 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,090 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,245 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,294 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,998 | 14.8 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,923 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,802 | 16.5 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,726 | 17.8 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,156 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,157 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,176 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,374 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,067 | 13.0 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,959 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,832 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,459 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,654 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,355 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,055 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,156 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,499 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,281 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,033 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,606 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,879 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,499 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,612 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,077 | 15.0 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,879 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,608 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,918 | 17.0 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,990 | 16.5 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,912 | 17.6 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,299 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,073 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,065 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,221 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,061 | 15.8 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,563 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,120 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,953 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,440 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,486 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,409 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,800 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,527 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,440 | 12.8 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,083 | 17.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katheleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katheleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katheleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katheleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 724 Americans named Katheleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 49 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 710 people named Katheleen (710 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 751,996 babies since 1880, Katheleen is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 211 babies recorded by SSA was a Katheleen (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 Katheleen
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 Katheleen and names like it
- Compare Katheleen and KathleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKatheleen peaked in 1952.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katheleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Katheleen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Katheleen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.