Meaning not yet researched.
Cathryn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #451 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #451 in 1950; #11,135 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cathryn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,135 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #451.
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Cathryn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #451 in 1950 · most girls in one year: 368 (1956).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Cathryn, making it the 11,135th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,450 places from #6,685 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 17 girls named Cathryn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #451, reached in 1950. The most girls given the name in a single year was 368, in 1956. For comparison, it was #2,748 in 2015 and #451 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cathryn in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 16,332 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,271 babies named Cathryn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 245 US girls were named Cathryn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karen (990,774 babies since 1880), Catherine (669,611 babies since 1880), Katherine (652,750 babies since 1880) and Kathryn (456,515 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cathreen and Caitryn are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cathreen (15), Caitryn (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Cathryn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,135 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,685 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,145 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,048 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,902 | — | — |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,809 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,196 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,796 | — | — |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,421 | — | — |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 2001 | 124 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 2000 | 154 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1999 | 130 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1998 | 107 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1997 | 135 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1996 | 155 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1995 | 144 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1994 | 147 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1992 | 152 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1991 | 183 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1990 | 157 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1989 | 154 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1988 | 177 | #949 | — | — |
| 1987 | 146 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1986 | 161 | #981 | — | — |
| 1985 | 163 | #952 | — | — |
| 1984 | 155 | #945 | — | — |
| 1983 | 157 | #944 | — | — |
| 1982 | 134 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1981 | 142 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1980 | 135 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1979 | 131 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1978 | 135 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1977 | 126 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1976 | 106 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1975 | 118 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1974 | 104 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1973 | 116 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1972 | 145 | #877 | — | — |
| 1971 | 174 | #805 | — | — |
| 1970 | 197 | #749 | — | — |
| 1969 | 178 | #754 | — | — |
| 1968 | 165 | #779 | — | — |
| 1967 | 201 | #683 | — | — |
| 1966 | 187 | #718 | — | — |
| 1965 | 168 | #764 | — | — |
| 1964 | 194 | #748 | — | — |
| 1963 | 219 | #680 | — | — |
| 1962 | 212 | #709 | — | — |
| 1961 | 236 | #673 | — | — |
| 1960 | 255 | #633 | — | — |
| 1959 | 272 | #602 | — | — |
| 1958 | 318 | #543 | — | — |
| 1957 | 303 | #551 | — | — |
| 1956 | 368 | #485 | — | — |
| 1955 | 335 | #504 | — | — |
| 1954 | 347 | #479 | — | — |
| 1953 | 321 | #481 | — | — |
| 1952 | 351 | #456 | — | — |
| 1951 | 336 | #453 | — | — |
| 1950 | 320 | #451 | — | — |
| 1949 | 292 | #470 | — | — |
| 1948 | 265 | #501 | — | — |
| 1947 | 248 | #534 | — | — |
| 1946 | 160 | #626 | — | — |
| 1945 | 135 | #626 | — | — |
| 1944 | 122 | #674 | — | — |
| 1943 | 127 | #673 | — | — |
| 1942 | 113 | #702 | — | — |
| 1941 | 94 | #729 | — | — |
| 1940 | 81 | #787 | — | — |
| 1939 | 61 | #899 | — | — |
| 1938 | 72 | #831 | — | — |
| 1937 | 72 | #810 | — | — |
| 1936 | 75 | #780 | — | — |
| 1935 | 85 | #730 | — | — |
| 1934 | 93 | #694 | — | — |
| 1933 | 84 | #709 | — | — |
| 1932 | 78 | #765 | — | — |
| 1931 | 84 | #736 | — | — |
| 1930 | 94 | #718 | — | — |
| 1929 | 97 | #712 | — | — |
| 1928 | 80 | #800 | — | — |
| 1927 | 125 | #644 | — | — |
| 1926 | 114 | #682 | — | — |
| 1925 | 110 | #704 | — | — |
| 1924 | 135 | #644 | — | — |
| 1923 | 132 | #640 | — | — |
| 1922 | 128 | #648 | — | — |
| 1921 | 148 | #594 | — | — |
| 1920 | 118 | #665 | — | — |
| 1919 | 113 | #655 | — | — |
| 1918 | 142 | #596 | — | — |
| 1917 | 142 | #567 | — | — |
| 1916 | 119 | #619 | — | — |
| 1915 | 136 | #549 | — | — |
| 1914 | 102 | #553 | — | — |
| 1913 | 81 | #567 | — | — |
| 1912 | 60 | #641 | — | — |
| 1911 | 47 | #626 | — | — |
| 1910 | 39 | #682 | — | — |
| 1909 | 31 | #719 | — | — |
| 1908 | 40 | #593 | — | — |
| 1907 | 31 | #680 | — | — |
| 1906 | 19 | #849 | — | — |
| 1905 | 26 | #701 | — | — |
| 1904 | 18 | #856 | — | — |
| 1903 | 19 | #791 | — | — |
| 1902 | 18 | #822 | — | — |
| 1901 | 23 | #663 | — | — |
| 1900 | 17 | #924 | — | — |
| 1899 | 19 | #731 | — | — |
| 1898 | 23 | #680 | — | — |
| 1897 | 18 | #741 | — | — |
| 1896 | 30 | #554 | — | — |
| 1895 | 24 | #624 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #860 | — | — |
| 1893 | 13 | #829 | — | — |
| 1892 | 23 | #581 | — | — |
| 1891 | 12 | #803 | — | — |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1889 | 18 | #602 | — | — |
| 1888 | 11 | #800 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #873 | — | — |
| 1885 | 9 | #752 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #741 | — | — |
| 1883 | 14 | #524 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #931 | — | — |
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).