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Katharine
Rank in 2024
#4,818
Born in 2024
28
Peak year
1982 · #261
Origin
Ancient Greek
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 28 girls were named Katharine, about 1 in every 57,614.
- It peaked in 1982 with 947 babies, ranked #261.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 41,204 girls have been named Katharine since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Katharine per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6,135 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Silent: 3,580 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,563 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,012 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,424 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,432 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 724 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A variant spelling of Catherine, based on the folk etymology that it would derive from Greek καθαρός (katharos "pure").
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Katharine, CC BY-SA 4.0.