Meaning not yet researched.
Cathleen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #251 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #251 in 1956; #9,581 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cathleen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,581 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #251.
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Cathleen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #251 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 1,159 (1958).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Cathleen, making it the 9,581st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,024 places from #8,557 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 girls named Cathleen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #251, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,159, in 1958. For comparison, it was #6,069 in 2015 and #280 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cathleen in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 8 babies. In all, 29,933 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 9,469 babies named Cathleen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 119 US girls were named Cathleen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kathleen (715,336 babies since 1880) and Kaitlyn (166,921 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cathlene are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Casey, Cassie, Cathy, Kathy, Katy and Kay.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cathlene (829).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,581 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,557 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,402 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,129 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,090 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,062 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,577 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,243 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,596 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,327 | — | — |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,069 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,053 | — | — |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,523 | — | — |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,225 | — | — |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,942 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1994 | 115 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1992 | 115 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1991 | 125 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1990 | 129 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1989 | 140 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1988 | 151 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1987 | 162 | #975 | — | — |
| 1986 | 178 | #906 | — | — |
| 1985 | 189 | #853 | — | — |
| 1984 | 177 | #862 | — | — |
| 1983 | 177 | #860 | — | — |
| 1982 | 203 | #794 | — | — |
| 1981 | 197 | #809 | — | — |
| 1980 | 186 | #840 | — | — |
| 1979 | 214 | #755 | — | — |
| 1978 | 220 | #717 | — | — |
| 1977 | 270 | #621 | — | — |
| 1976 | 214 | #692 | — | — |
| 1975 | 261 | #608 | — | — |
| 1974 | 317 | #528 | — | — |
| 1973 | 367 | #486 | — | — |
| 1972 | 428 | #443 | — | — |
| 1971 | 534 | #401 | — | — |
| 1970 | 636 | #375 | — | — |
| 1969 | 670 | #349 | — | — |
| 1968 | 612 | #364 | — | — |
| 1967 | 734 | #322 | — | — |
| 1966 | 831 | #307 | — | — |
| 1965 | 886 | #301 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,005 | #288 | 5 | #4,133 |
| 1963 | 822 | #327 | — | — |
| 1962 | 848 | #322 | — | — |
| 1961 | 931 | #302 | — | — |
| 1960 | 950 | #304 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,016 | #279 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,159 | #255 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,071 | #264 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,115 | #251 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,008 | #268 | — | — |
| 1954 | 870 | #287 | — | — |
| 1953 | 817 | #292 | 5 | #3,894 |
| 1952 | 877 | #272 | — | — |
| 1951 | 772 | #282 | — | — |
| 1950 | 759 | #280 | — | — |
| 1949 | 733 | #285 | — | — |
| 1948 | 653 | #300 | — | — |
| 1947 | 568 | #334 | — | — |
| 1946 | 356 | #405 | — | — |
| 1945 | 311 | #403 | — | — |
| 1944 | 287 | #423 | — | — |
| 1943 | 199 | #534 | — | — |
| 1942 | 182 | #551 | — | — |
| 1941 | 136 | #604 | — | — |
| 1940 | 116 | #645 | — | — |
| 1939 | 85 | #740 | — | — |
| 1938 | 64 | #875 | — | — |
| 1937 | 61 | #883 | — | — |
| 1936 | 45 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1935 | 61 | #885 | — | — |
| 1934 | 57 | #905 | — | — |
| 1933 | 50 | #974 | — | — |
| 1932 | 70 | #816 | — | — |
| 1931 | 49 | #997 | — | — |
| 1930 | 57 | #971 | — | — |
| 1929 | 56 | #959 | — | — |
| 1928 | 67 | #896 | — | — |
| 1927 | 53 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1926 | 73 | #867 | — | — |
| 1925 | 73 | #871 | — | — |
| 1924 | 73 | #880 | — | — |
| 1923 | 78 | #828 | — | — |
| 1922 | 61 | #952 | — | — |
| 1921 | 56 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1920 | 51 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1919 | 46 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1916 | 49 | #980 | — | — |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1912 | 30 | #924 | — | — |
| 1911 | 23 | #903 | — | — |
| 1910 | 27 | #833 | — | — |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1906 | 17 | #900 | — | — |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1904 | 18 | #855 | — | — |
| 1903 | 13 | #984 | — | — |
| 1902 | 18 | #821 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,226 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).