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Kathleen
Pronounced /ˈkæθˌlin/
Rank in 2024
#1,109
Born in 2024
220
Peak year
1951 · #10
Origin
Irish
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 220 girls were named Kathleen, about 1 in every 7,333.
- It peaked in 1951 with 26,716 babies, ranked #10.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 713,438 girls have been named Kathleen since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kathleen per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 2.3Greatest1901–27
- 5.0Silent1928–45
- 10.8Boomers1946–64
- 3.8Gen X1965–80
- 2.0Millennials1981–96
- 0.6Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 47,700 babies, 2.33 per 1,000. Silent: 103,154 babies, 4.99 per 1,000. Boomers: 387,252 babies, 10.81 per 1,000. Gen X: 97,211 babies, 3.80 per 1,000. Millennials: 55,274 babies, 1.96 per 1,000. Gen Z: 16,549 babies, 0.57 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,646 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Anglicization of Caitlín, an Irish equivalent of the English Catherine.
- A female given name from Irish.
- Origin
- Irish
- Say it
- /ˈkæθˌlin/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kathleen, CC BY-SA 4.0.