Meaning not yet researched.
Katharine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #172 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #172 in 1880; #4,935 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Katharine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,935 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #172.
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Katharine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 girls in 2025. Peak: #172 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 946 (1982).
In 2025, 27 US girls were named Katharine, making it the 4,935th most common girls’ name of the year, down 107 places from #4,828 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 28 girls named Katharine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #172, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 946, in 1982. For comparison, it was #2,146 in 2015 and #415 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Katharine in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 76 babies with the name. In all, 41,241 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 7,871 babies named Katharine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 464 US girls were named Katharine; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 59,528 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Katherine (652,750 babies since 1880), Catherine (669,611 babies since 1880), Catharine (12,994 babies since 1880) and Katherin (3,630 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Katharyn 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: Katharyn (1,614).
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 Katharine 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 | 27 | #4,935 | — | — |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,828 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,238 | — | — |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,946 | — | — |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,784 | — | — |
| 2015 | 89 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 2010 | 127 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 2008 | 191 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 2007 | 256 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 2006 | 293 | #907 | — | — |
| 2005 | 301 | #842 | — | — |
| 2004 | 323 | #790 | — | — |
| 2003 | 375 | #697 | — | — |
| 2002 | 286 | #809 | — | — |
| 2001 | 334 | #728 | — | — |
| 2000 | 362 | #669 | — | — |
| 1999 | 320 | #710 | — | — |
| 1998 | 453 | #548 | — | — |
| 1997 | 407 | #572 | — | — |
| 1996 | 432 | #541 | — | — |
| 1995 | 465 | #520 | — | — |
| 1994 | 542 | #467 | — | — |
| 1993 | 654 | #389 | — | — |
| 1992 | 708 | #362 | — | — |
| 1991 | 687 | #375 | — | — |
| 1990 | 647 | #401 | — | — |
| 1989 | 628 | #393 | — | — |
| 1988 | 755 | #327 | — | — |
| 1987 | 728 | #337 | — | — |
| 1986 | 907 | #275 | — | — |
| 1985 | 841 | #293 | 5 | #7,076 |
| 1984 | 852 | #284 | 6 | #5,979 |
| 1983 | 839 | #281 | — | — |
| 1982 | 946 | #262 | — | — |
| 1981 | 792 | #306 | — | — |
| 1980 | 572 | #397 | — | — |
| 1979 | 628 | #361 | — | — |
| 1978 | 422 | #467 | — | — |
| 1977 | 435 | #455 | — | — |
| 1976 | 367 | #494 | — | — |
| 1975 | 345 | #517 | — | — |
| 1974 | 344 | #505 | — | — |
| 1973 | 269 | #587 | — | — |
| 1972 | 309 | #539 | — | — |
| 1971 | 320 | #558 | — | — |
| 1970 | 409 | #491 | — | — |
| 1969 | 367 | #509 | — | — |
| 1968 | 370 | #504 | — | — |
| 1967 | 270 | #582 | — | — |
| 1966 | 300 | #544 | — | — |
| 1965 | 285 | #566 | — | — |
| 1964 | 289 | #584 | — | — |
| 1963 | 307 | #558 | — | — |
| 1962 | 291 | #578 | — | — |
| 1961 | 331 | #543 | — | — |
| 1960 | 304 | #562 | — | — |
| 1959 | 366 | #511 | — | — |
| 1958 | 405 | #474 | — | — |
| 1957 | 408 | #469 | — | — |
| 1956 | 405 | #457 | — | — |
| 1955 | 416 | #440 | — | — |
| 1954 | 322 | #493 | — | — |
| 1953 | 337 | #463 | — | — |
| 1952 | 359 | #454 | — | — |
| 1951 | 321 | #466 | — | — |
| 1950 | 373 | #415 | — | — |
| 1949 | 345 | #423 | — | — |
| 1948 | 334 | #435 | — | — |
| 1947 | 350 | #437 | — | — |
| 1946 | 300 | #447 | — | — |
| 1945 | 282 | #424 | — | — |
| 1944 | 256 | #454 | — | — |
| 1943 | 280 | #445 | — | — |
| 1942 | 259 | #462 | — | — |
| 1941 | 223 | #469 | — | — |
| 1940 | 160 | #544 | — | — |
| 1939 | 181 | #496 | — | — |
| 1938 | 164 | #529 | — | — |
| 1937 | 160 | #523 | — | — |
| 1936 | 182 | #475 | — | — |
| 1935 | 170 | #484 | — | — |
| 1934 | 167 | #500 | — | — |
| 1933 | 152 | #514 | — | — |
| 1932 | 177 | #496 | — | — |
| 1931 | 166 | #502 | — | — |
| 1930 | 205 | #469 | — | — |
| 1929 | 195 | #484 | — | — |
| 1928 | 201 | #483 | — | — |
| 1927 | 226 | #465 | — | — |
| 1926 | 214 | #473 | — | — |
| 1925 | 236 | #453 | — | — |
| 1924 | 265 | #429 | — | — |
| 1923 | 266 | #409 | — | — |
| 1922 | 291 | #382 | — | — |
| 1921 | 329 | #370 | — | — |
| 1920 | 349 | #351 | — | — |
| 1919 | 353 | #341 | — | — |
| 1918 | 372 | #334 | — | — |
| 1917 | 357 | #330 | — | — |
| 1916 | 336 | #334 | — | — |
| 1915 | 344 | #319 | — | — |
| 1914 | 290 | #307 | — | — |
| 1913 | 236 | #309 | — | — |
| 1912 | 261 | #279 | — | — |
| 1911 | 148 | #326 | — | — |
| 1910 | 157 | #307 | — | — |
| 1909 | 144 | #299 | — | — |
| 1908 | 155 | #283 | — | — |
| 1907 | 122 | #316 | — | — |
| 1906 | 133 | #288 | — | — |
| 1905 | 121 | #306 | — | — |
| 1904 | 109 | #309 | — | — |
| 1903 | 126 | #278 | — | — |
| 1902 | 89 | #334 | — | — |
| 1901 | 106 | #294 | — | — |
| 1900 | 141 | #273 | — | — |
| 1899 | 104 | #287 | — | — |
| 1898 | 125 | #270 | — | — |
| 1897 | 145 | #228 | — | — |
| 1896 | 151 | #225 | — | — |
| 1895 | 145 | #229 | — | — |
| 1894 | 140 | #224 | — | — |
| 1893 | 128 | #233 | — | — |
| 1892 | 123 | #238 | — | — |
| 1891 | 117 | #224 | — | — |
| 1890 | 119 | #226 | — | — |
| 1889 | 119 | #211 | — | — |
| 1888 | 108 | #223 | — | — |
| 1887 | 110 | #191 | — | — |
| 1886 | 90 | #210 | — | — |
| 1885 | 78 | #223 | — | — |
| 1884 | 86 | #203 | — | — |
| 1883 | 79 | #191 | — | — |
| 1882 | 82 | #175 | — | — |
| 1881 | 68 | #182 | — | — |
| 1880 | 76 | #172 | — | — |
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).