Catharine
Catharine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 249th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1915281 births
- Best rank
- #249in 1883
- Since 1880
- 12,994people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,994 girls have been named Catharine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 281 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 281 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1910s alone account for 16%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Catharine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 478 | |
| 1890s | 801 | |
| 1900s | 1,117 | |
| 1910s | 2,086 | |
| 1920s | 1,643 | |
| 1930s | 844 | |
| 1940s | 1,012 | |
| 1950s | 1,387 | |
| 1960s | 1,074 | |
| 1970s | 777 | |
| 1980s | 705 | |
| 1990s | 550 | |
| 2000s | 337 | |
| 2010s | 147 | |
| 2020s | 36 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Catharine was the 357th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Catharine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lonapeak 1918
- Venapeak 1919
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Elmirapeak 1921
- Alphapeak 1916
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Lenniepeak 1915
- Lelapeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.