Katrine
Katrine was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 903 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katrine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katrine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Katrine is “a female given name from Ancient Greek of Danish origin, occasionally used in English.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katrine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,013, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1981, the peak
Katrine peaked in 1981, when 27 girls were given it, #3,177 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,013 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,556 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,851 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,229 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,173 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,189 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,516 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,327 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,717 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,482 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 10 | #10,033 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,756 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,500 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,515 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,022 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,773 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,036 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,204 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,779 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,866 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,793 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,089 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,785 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,644 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,744 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,455 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,751 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,587 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,200 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,059 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,993 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,944 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,177 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,258 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,966 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,694 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,767 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,779 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,983 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,577 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,706 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,623 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,765 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,888 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,052 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,105 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,553 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,066 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,328 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,487 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,120 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,126 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,565 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,814 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,813 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,162 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,574 | 5.9 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,950 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,456 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,082 | 4.8 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,198 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,321 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,448 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,769 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,166 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,322 | 3.2 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,361 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,190 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,582 | 4.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,551 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,058 | 5.7 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,256 | 8.1 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,247 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,514 | 7.4 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,000 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,176 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,069 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,907 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,617 | 11.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katrine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katrine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katrine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katrine, and how old are they?
An estimated 758 Americans named Katrine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 33 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 929 people named Katrine (926 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 785 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 133,347 babies since 1880, Katrine is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 359 babies recorded by SSA was a Katrine (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 Katrine
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 Katrine and names like it
- Compare Katrine and KatrinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKatrine peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katrine since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Katrine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Katrine.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Katrine alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.