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Catherine
Pronounced /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1989 · #1760
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:955 in 2024 (#321)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Catherine in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1989 with 44 babies, ranked #1760.
- It first shows up in the records in 1884.
- 1,822 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 383 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 425 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 398 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 280 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 241 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 51 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 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.