Meaning not yet researched.
Katherin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #717 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #717 in 1989; #4,222 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Katherin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,222 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #717.
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Katherin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #717 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 277 (1989).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Katherin, making it the 4,222nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 112 places from #4,334 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 33 girls named Katherin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #717, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 277. For comparison, it was #3,324 in 2015 and #1,778 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Katherin in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 3,630 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 720 babies named Katherin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 399 US girls were named Katherin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Catherine (669,611 babies since 1880), Katherine (652,750 babies since 1880), Katharine (41,241 babies since 1880) and Katheryn (15,220 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.
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 Katherin 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 | 34 | #4,222 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,624 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,855 | — | — |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,812 | — | — |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,953 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,324 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,538 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,881 | — | — |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,687 | — | — |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,757 | — | — |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1989 | 277 | #717 | — | — |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,769 | — | — |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,624 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,633 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,168 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,840 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,982 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,556 | — | — |
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).