Kathrin
Kathrin was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,214 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Kathrin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 34 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kathrin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kathrin mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Kathrin is “a female given name, variant of Katrin”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kathrin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,444, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1990, the peak
Kathrin peaked in 1990, when 36 girls were given it, #3,108 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,444 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,565 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,771 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,959 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,941 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,185 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,275 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,013 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,401 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,971 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 13 | #8,239 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,538 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,609 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,978 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,456 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,916 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,729 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,398 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,813 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,946 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,727 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,143 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,260 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,108 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,177 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,427 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,167 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,068 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,914 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,065 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,992 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,837 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,480 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,665 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,277 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,693 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,824 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,872 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,688 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,117 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,463 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,256 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,715 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,157 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,250 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,236 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,943 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,198 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,782 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,437 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,014 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,351 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,689 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,683 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,549 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,807 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,519 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,418 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,674 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,101 | 13.4 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,013 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,997 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,632 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,320 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,787 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,471 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,397 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,704 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,532 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,460 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,980 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,284 | 7.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,586 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,549 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,934 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,075 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,557 | 5.0 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,474 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,677 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,068 | 6.0 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,779 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,616 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,397 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kathrin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kathrin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kathrin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kathrin, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,214 Americans ever recorded as Kathrin. The median Kathrin alive today is 46 years old; half are between 34 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 1,842 people named Kathrin (1,840 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,073 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kathrin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 246 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 332 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 164 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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 501,020 babies since 1880, Kathrin is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 468 babies recorded by SSA was a Kathrin (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 Kathrin
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 Kathrin and names like it
- Compare Kathrin and KathrynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKathrin peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kathrin since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Kathrin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kathrin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kathrin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.