Kathern
Kathern was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 3,323 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Kathern and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 56 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kathern by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kathern?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,584, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
96 babies in 1954, the peak
Kathern peaked in 1954, when 96 girls were given it, #995 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #18,584 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,438 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,750 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,981 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,594 | 4.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,835 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,099 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,091 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,837 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,772 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 16 | #5,673 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,704 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,050 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,103 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,835 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,350 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,075 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,774 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,472 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,618 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,611 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,964 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,325 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,521 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,021 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,705 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,487 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,166 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,373 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,905 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,061 | 22.9 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,230 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,144 | 19.5 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,462 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,995 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,179 | 17.0 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,960 | 19.5 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,965 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,873 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,757 | 21.3 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,801 | 19.8 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,542 | 24.7 |
| 1958 | 63 | #1,335 | 31.3 |
| 1957 | 63 | #1,337 | 30.8 |
| 1956 | 68 | #1,261 | 33.9 |
| 1955 | 81 | #1,108 | 41.4 |
| 1954 | 96 | #995 | 49.4 |
| 1953 | 76 | #1,117 | 40.4 |
| 1952 | 80 | #1,054 | 43.1 |
| 1951 | 89 | #990 | 49.4 |
| 1950 | 77 | #1,045 | 44.9 |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,147 | 36.8 |
| 1948 | 53 | #1,259 | 31.2 |
| 1947 | 57 | #1,196 | 32.2 |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,262 | 29.9 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,242 | 32.1 |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,211 | 32.4 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,133 | 36.6 |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,170 | 34.1 |
| 1941 | 50 | #1,040 | 41.4 |
| 1940 | 51 | #1,004 | 44.6 |
| 1939 | 47 | #1,045 | 42.9 |
| 1938 | 55 | #958 | 49.8 |
| 1937 | 52 | #971 | 48.9 |
| 1936 | 45 | #1,044 | 43.3 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,149 | 36.2 |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,157 | 36.4 |
| 1933 | 51 | #963 | 50.6 |
| 1932 | 42 | #1,104 | 39.4 |
| 1931 | 48 | #1,016 | 45.1 |
| 1930 | 49 | #1,056 | 43.5 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,296 | 30.5 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,753 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,114 | 39.4 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,190 | 35.4 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,261 | 32.0 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,268 | 32.0 |
| 1923 | 53 | #1,041 | 43.9 |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,136 | 38.3 |
| 1921 | 59 | #966 | 47.8 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,237 | 32.5 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,257 | 32.7 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,346 | 28.5 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,487 | 24.0 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,611 | 22.0 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,159 | 35.6 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,466 | 26.3 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,715 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,273 | 32.3 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,500 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,474 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,332 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,616 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,456 | 28.3 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,213 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,138 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,934 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,518 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,808 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,370 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,143 | 38.6 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,591 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 10 | #994 | 47.0 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,420 | 26.3 |
| 1886 | 9 | #803 | 62.3 |
| 1885 | 6 | #986 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 6 | #974 | 46.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kathern a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kathern has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kathern: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kathern, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 53% of the 3,323 Americans ever recorded as Kathern. The median Kathern alive today is 69 years old; half are between 56 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 1,909 people named Kathern (1,905 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,011 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 248 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 887 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 371 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 204 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 31 |
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 Kathern born?
The states with the most babies named Kathern are West Virginia, Kentucky and California, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910; West Virginia and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 179 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Kentucky | 137 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 39 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 28 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 27 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Kathern is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kathern is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 3.8 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 Kathern 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 486,421 babies since 1880, Kathern is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 460 babies recorded by SSA was a Kathern (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 Kathern
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 Kathern and names like it
- Compare Kathern and KathrynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKathern peaked in 1954.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kathern since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Kathern.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kathern alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.