Meaning not yet researched.
Kathrine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #331 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #331 in 1882; #7,312 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kathrine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,312 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #331.
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Kathrine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #331 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 275 (1956).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Kathrine, making it the 7,312th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,434 places from #5,878 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 21 girls named Kathrine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #331, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 275, in 1956. For comparison, it was #5,212 in 2015 and #605 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kathrine in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 21 babies with the name. In all, 15,775 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,288 babies named Kathrine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 190 US girls were named Kathrine; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 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 Katie (241,784 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 Kathrine 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 | 15 | #7,312 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,878 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,828 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,278 | — | — |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,851 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,488 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,293 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,391 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,176 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,375 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,212 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,605 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,132 | — | — |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 2006 | 102 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 2001 | 124 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1998 | 138 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1997 | 171 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1996 | 163 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1995 | 189 | #995 | — | — |
| 1994 | 188 | #990 | — | — |
| 1993 | 208 | #919 | — | — |
| 1992 | 261 | #784 | — | — |
| 1991 | 235 | #852 | — | — |
| 1990 | 260 | #781 | — | — |
| 1989 | 254 | #766 | — | — |
| 1988 | 248 | #756 | — | — |
| 1987 | 234 | #768 | — | — |
| 1986 | 208 | #808 | — | — |
| 1985 | 214 | #784 | — | — |
| 1984 | 204 | #786 | — | — |
| 1983 | 225 | #731 | — | — |
| 1982 | 175 | #881 | — | — |
| 1981 | 202 | #799 | — | — |
| 1980 | 191 | #823 | — | — |
| 1979 | 216 | #750 | — | — |
| 1978 | 188 | #798 | — | — |
| 1977 | 197 | #768 | — | — |
| 1976 | 140 | #928 | — | — |
| 1975 | 155 | #866 | — | — |
| 1974 | 152 | #861 | — | — |
| 1973 | 141 | #892 | — | — |
| 1972 | 162 | #820 | — | — |
| 1971 | 173 | #807 | — | — |
| 1970 | 183 | #777 | — | — |
| 1969 | 169 | #792 | — | — |
| 1968 | 187 | #713 | — | — |
| 1967 | 169 | #756 | — | — |
| 1966 | 180 | #734 | — | — |
| 1965 | 188 | #725 | — | — |
| 1964 | 171 | #799 | — | — |
| 1963 | 179 | #773 | — | — |
| 1962 | 181 | #772 | — | — |
| 1961 | 203 | #731 | — | — |
| 1960 | 190 | #737 | — | — |
| 1959 | 221 | #673 | — | — |
| 1958 | 231 | #652 | — | — |
| 1957 | 244 | #626 | — | — |
| 1956 | 275 | #569 | — | — |
| 1955 | 265 | #558 | — | — |
| 1954 | 243 | #579 | — | — |
| 1953 | 180 | #671 | — | — |
| 1952 | 221 | #584 | — | — |
| 1951 | 217 | #581 | — | — |
| 1950 | 191 | #605 | — | — |
| 1949 | 177 | #621 | — | — |
| 1948 | 145 | #692 | — | — |
| 1947 | 128 | #761 | — | — |
| 1946 | 90 | #877 | — | — |
| 1945 | 67 | #929 | — | — |
| 1944 | 89 | #811 | — | — |
| 1943 | 98 | #787 | — | — |
| 1942 | 77 | #893 | — | — |
| 1941 | 69 | #881 | — | — |
| 1940 | 65 | #889 | — | — |
| 1939 | 85 | #746 | — | — |
| 1938 | 77 | #806 | — | — |
| 1937 | 54 | #945 | — | — |
| 1936 | 84 | #726 | — | — |
| 1935 | 78 | #768 | — | — |
| 1934 | 76 | #773 | — | — |
| 1933 | 67 | #817 | — | — |
| 1932 | 71 | #810 | — | — |
| 1931 | 85 | #731 | — | — |
| 1930 | 81 | #784 | — | — |
| 1929 | 90 | #737 | — | — |
| 1928 | 104 | #687 | — | — |
| 1927 | 116 | #672 | — | — |
| 1926 | 121 | #657 | — | — |
| 1925 | 111 | #700 | — | — |
| 1924 | 123 | #672 | — | — |
| 1923 | 121 | #675 | — | — |
| 1922 | 113 | #690 | — | — |
| 1921 | 112 | #701 | — | — |
| 1920 | 127 | #640 | — | — |
| 1919 | 117 | #642 | — | — |
| 1918 | 134 | #608 | — | — |
| 1917 | 105 | #664 | — | — |
| 1916 | 108 | #656 | — | — |
| 1915 | 89 | #709 | — | — |
| 1914 | 67 | #707 | — | — |
| 1913 | 75 | #597 | — | — |
| 1912 | 59 | #653 | — | — |
| 1911 | 41 | #682 | — | — |
| 1910 | 42 | #659 | — | — |
| 1909 | 33 | #697 | — | — |
| 1908 | 21 | #866 | — | — |
| 1907 | 27 | #732 | — | — |
| 1906 | 26 | #722 | — | — |
| 1905 | 27 | #690 | — | — |
| 1904 | 20 | #817 | — | — |
| 1903 | 22 | #723 | — | — |
| 1902 | 21 | #766 | — | — |
| 1901 | 26 | #622 | — | — |
| 1900 | 29 | #664 | — | — |
| 1899 | 22 | #670 | — | — |
| 1898 | 21 | #734 | — | — |
| 1897 | 23 | #652 | — | — |
| 1896 | 21 | #695 | — | — |
| 1895 | 21 | #694 | — | — |
| 1894 | 17 | #731 | — | — |
| 1893 | 24 | #589 | — | — |
| 1892 | 28 | #518 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #632 | — | — |
| 1890 | 34 | #437 | — | — |
| 1889 | 34 | #419 | — | — |
| 1888 | 22 | #538 | — | — |
| 1887 | 23 | #467 | — | — |
| 1886 | 24 | #443 | — | — |
| 1885 | 25 | #420 | — | — |
| 1884 | 21 | #442 | — | — |
| 1883 | 22 | #403 | — | — |
| 1882 | 29 | #331 | — | — |
| 1881 | 19 | #385 | — | — |
| 1880 | 21 | #359 | — | — |
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).