Katheryn
Katheryn was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,427 among girls’ names; 15,220 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,970 Americans named Katheryn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 28 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katheryn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katheryn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Katheryn is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Catherine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katheryn?
#3,427 among girls’ names, 2025
Katheryn fell from #2,156 in 2015 to #3,427 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 49.3 to 28.0 per million.
213 babies in 1990, the peak
Katheryn peaked in 1990, when 213 girls were given it, #901 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,427 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,429 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,674 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,923 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,579 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,310 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,909 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,888 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,455 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,257 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #2,156 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,187 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,199 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,199 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,285 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 113 | #1,811 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,883 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 117 | #1,837 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,108 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,750 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 133 | #1,541 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 140 | #1,453 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 143 | #1,389 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 144 | #1,345 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 156 | #1,261 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 161 | #1,232 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 142 | #1,293 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 174 | #1,109 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 164 | #1,139 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 187 | #1,006 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 190 | #985 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 200 | #934 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 174 | #1,053 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 211 | #923 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 207 | #926 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 213 | #901 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 175 | #987 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 212 | #848 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 180 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 162 | #974 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 167 | #941 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 170 | #885 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 148 | #984 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 128 | #1,099 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 126 | #1,103 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 130 | #1,084 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 137 | #1,025 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 126 | #1,059 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 80 | #1,409 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,553 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 95 | #1,214 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 87 | #1,256 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 73 | #1,365 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,268 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 97 | #1,183 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 121 | #1,021 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 112 | #1,033 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 109 | #1,004 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 100 | #1,031 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 94 | #1,083 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 112 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 118 | #979 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 135 | #903 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 121 | #970 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 149 | #877 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 139 | #889 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 142 | #861 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 187 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 153 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 183 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 178 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 187 | #682 | 0.10 |
| 1953 | 170 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 174 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 193 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 178 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 172 | #630 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 147 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 134 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 143 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 106 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 130 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 113 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 113 | #703 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 99 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 86 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 85 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 91 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 107 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 83 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 82 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 100 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1933 | 78 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 76 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 90 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 99 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 129 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1928 | 103 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 124 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1926 | 129 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 159 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 191 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1923 | 167 | #561 | 0.14 |
| 1922 | 160 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 179 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 202 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1919 | 161 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 181 | #508 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 187 | #478 | 0.17 |
| 1916 | 177 | #479 | 0.17 |
| 1915 | 150 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1914 | 102 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 74 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 61 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 53 | #588 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 46 | #624 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 34 | #687 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 37 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 32 | #672 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 35 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 26 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 27 | #676 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 27 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 28 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 22 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 34 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 23 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 36 | #523 | 0.14 |
| 1897 | 21 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 13 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 13 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 21 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 18 | #700 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 22 | #606 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 13 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 23 | #555 | 0.12 |
| 1889 | 12 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 14 | #705 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 10 | #766 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 15 | #591 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 12 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 13 | #602 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 13 | #554 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 10 | #618 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 16 | #424 | 0.17 |
| 1880 | 7 | #707 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katheryn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katheryn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katheryn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katheryn, and how old are they?
9,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 66% of the 15,220 Americans ever recorded as Katheryn. The median Katheryn alive today is 41 years old; half are between 28 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 10,471 people named Katheryn (10,458 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 538 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,320 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,770 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 761 |
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 Katheryn born?
The states with the most babies named Katheryn are Florida, Texas and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,615 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,776 | 1.2× |
| California | 5 | #3,319 | 1.0× |
Where Katheryn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katheryn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.2 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 Katheryn 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 501,539 babies since 1880, Katheryn is the third most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 468 babies (9.6%), the second most given that year.
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 Katheryn
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 Katheryn and names like it
- Compare Katheryn and KathrynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKatheryn peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katheryn since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Katheryn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Katheryn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.