Katrin
Katrin was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,091 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Katrin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 26 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katrin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katrin mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Katrin is “a diminutive of the female given name Katharina”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katrin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,358, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1977, the peak
Katrin peaked in 1977, when 37 girls were given it, #2,395 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,358 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,708 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,917 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,901 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,900 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,999 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,143 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,602 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,401 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,492 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #15,566 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,198 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,048 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,118 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,660 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,238 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,849 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,483 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,672 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,847 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,744 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,046 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,793 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,080 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,327 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,241 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,640 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,806 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,755 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,861 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,898 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,938 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,079 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,056 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,178 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,084 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,762 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,836 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,664 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,233 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,025 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,425 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,791 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,363 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,500 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,326 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,395 | 24.1 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,232 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,020 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,931 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,397 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,113 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,764 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,361 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,058 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,619 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,944 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,887 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,636 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,486 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,709 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,389 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,887 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,957 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,286 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,061 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,393 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,873 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,671 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,121 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,015 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,977 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,600 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katrin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katrin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katrin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katrin, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,091 Americans ever recorded as Katrin. The median Katrin alive today is 40 years old; half are between 26 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 2,139 people named Katrin (2,128 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,017 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Katrin 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 125 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 286 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 304 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 226 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 88 |
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 4,452 babies since 1880, Katrin is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 none of their 22 babies recorded by SSA was a Katrin (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 Katrin
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 Katrin and names like it
- Compare Katrin and KathrinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKatrin peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katrin since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Katrin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Katrin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Katrin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.