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Catherine
Pronounced /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/
Rank in 2024
#321
Born in 2024
955
Peak year
1956 · #28
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 955 girls were named Catherine, about 1 in every 1,689.
- It peaked in 1956 with 12,057 babies, ranked #28.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 666,802 girls have been named Catherine since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Catherine per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 7.4Greatest1901–27
- 4.5Silent1928–45
- 5.2Boomers1946–64
- 3.2Gen X1965–80
- 2.4Millennials1981–96
- 1.6Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 151,443 babies, 7.40 per 1,000. Silent: 93,662 babies, 4.53 per 1,000. Boomers: 184,489 babies, 5.15 per 1,000. Gen X: 80,716 babies, 3.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 68,774 babies, 2.44 per 1,000. Gen Z: 45,503 babies, 1.57 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 16,717 babies, 0.82 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Catherine, from Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē), *Ἑκατερίνη (*Hekaterínē), of debated meaning, possibly from ἑκάτερος (hekáteros, “each of the two”), or from the name of the goddess Hecate. The apheresis of the first syllable as well as the spelling with ⟨th⟩ in Latin languages, German and English, is due to a folk etymology, dating from Roman times, which associated the name with the Ancient Greek καθαρός (katharós, “pure”).
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Catherine, CC BY-SA 4.0.