Kathleene
Kathleene was last recorded in 1995, when 5 babies were given it; 523 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kathleene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kathleene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,488, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1947, the peak
Kathleene peaked in 1947, when 32 girls were given it, #1,706 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #14,488 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,474 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,242 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,617 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,715 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,317 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,527 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,355 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,697 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,561 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 12 | #3,803 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,811 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,700 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,061 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,795 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,504 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,236 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,748 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,115 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,631 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,158 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,825 | 16.4 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,375 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,706 | 18.1 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,124 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,265 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,044 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,159 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,927 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,775 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,024 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,671 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,037 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,833 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,056 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,543 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,432 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,100 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,901 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,868 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,073 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,424 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,205 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,238 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,521 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,172 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,678 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,269 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,660 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,728 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,066 | 6.0 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,014 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kathleene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kathleene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kathleene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kathleene, and how old are they?
An estimated 268 Americans named Kathleene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 66 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 335 people named Kathleene (334 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 5,662 babies since 1880, Kathleene is the third most given (9.2% of them).
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 Kathleene
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 Kathleene and names like it
- Compare Kathleene and KathleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sKathleene peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kathleene since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Kathleene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kathleene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.