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Katherine
Pronounced /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/
Rank in 2024
#175
Born in 2024
1,740
Peak year
1990 · #26
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,740 girls were named Katherine, about 1 in every 927.
- It peaked in 1990 with 11,627 babies, ranked #26.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 649,238 girls have been named Katherine since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Katherine per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 4.1Greatest1901–27
- 2.5Silent1928–45
- 3.2Boomers1946–64
- 3.4Gen X1965–80
- 5.8Millennials1981–96
- 3.5Gen Z1997–12
- 1.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 84,119 babies, 4.11 per 1,000. Silent: 51,229 babies, 2.48 per 1,000. Boomers: 114,120 babies, 3.19 per 1,000. Gen X: 85,711 babies, 3.35 per 1,000. Millennials: 163,386 babies, 5.79 per 1,000. Gen Z: 102,023 babies, 3.51 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 31,119 babies, 1.53 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, a popular spelling variant of Catherine.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Katherine, CC BY-SA 4.0.