Katharine
Katharine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 172nd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1982947 births
- Best rank
- #172in 1880
- Since 1880
- 41,204people given the name
The story in the numbers
41,204 girls have been named Katharine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 947 births.
The name has all but left use: 28 births in 2024, against 947 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1980s alone account for 19%. It has spent 127 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Katharine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 896 | |
| 1890s | 1,297 | |
| 1900s | 1,246 | |
| 1910s | 2,854 | |
| 1920s | 2,572 | |
| 1930s | 1,724 | |
| 1940s | 2,789 | |
| 1950s | 3,712 | |
| 1960s | 3,114 | |
| 1970s | 3,848 | |
| 1980s | 7,861 | |
| 1990s | 5,315 | |
| 2000s | 2,881 | |
| 2010s | 915 | |
| 2020s | 180 |
In 1982, its biggest year
Katharine was the 262nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.
Names that rose and fell with Katharine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elizabethpeak 1990
- Carrapeak 1993
- Johannapeak 1984
- Ninapeak 1980
- Kathrinepeak 1956
- Juliapeak 2001
- Susannapeak 1958
- Lorenapeak 1980
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.