Meaning not yet researched.
Katharina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #787 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #787 in 1881; #6,440 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Katharina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,440 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #787.
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Katharina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #787 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 58 (1993).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Katharina, making it the 6,440th most common girls’ name of the year, up 977 places from #7,417 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 15 girls named Katharina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #787, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 58, in 1993. For comparison, it was #4,657 in 2015 and #3,553 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Katharina in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 2,121 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 451 babies named Katharina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 178 US girls were named Katharina; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 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 Kathy (334,870 babies since 1880).
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 Dutch, German and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Katharina 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 | 18 | #6,440 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,417 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,294 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,100 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,065 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,752 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,186 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,945 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,175 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,288 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,103 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,131 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,037 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,608 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,508 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,795 | — | — |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,508 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,023 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,987 | — | — |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,484 | — | — |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,492 | — | — |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,593 | — | — |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,570 | — | — |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,163 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,424 | — | — |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,665 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,176 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,665 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,105 | — | — |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,883 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,219 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,190 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,971 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,607 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,966 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,316 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,747 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,757 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,401 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,187 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,981 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,397 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,020 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1888 | 10 | #869 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #944 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #876 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #871 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #974 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #787 | — | — |
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).