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Katherine
Pronounced /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1989 · #1089
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:1,740 in 2024 (#175)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Katherine in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1989 with 94 babies, ranked #1089.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,824 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 249 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 248 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 287 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 302 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 557 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 155 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 16 babies, 0.00 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.