How Many People Are Named Cathrine?

4,527

people named Cathrine are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 75,499 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,716 babies named Cathrine in Social Security records from 1880 to 2019, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,949

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,228

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Peak Year

1956

178 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Scandinavian form of KATHERINE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Cathrine in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Cathrine alive today is about 56 years old, and 51% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 43 and 69 in 2025.

Under 30 503
11.1%
30 to 59 1,736
38.3%
60 and over 2,288
50.5%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Cathrine first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1956, to 178 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2019.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2019

πŸ† Rank History

Cathrine has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #395, in 1881.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#395 (1881)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#815 in the 1950s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Cathrine alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Cathrine were born in California than in any other state: about 469 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cathrine was given 3.5 times as often in South Carolina, 2.7 times in Georgia and 2.7 times in Mississippi.

California 469
New York 194
Texas 191
Illinois 147
Ohio 124
Michigan 101
Pennsylvania 72
Georgia 70
Florida 53
North Carolina 44
South Carolina 40
Mississippi 37
Louisiana 36
Alabama 31
Massachusetts 22
New Jersey 21
Wisconsin 21
Missouri 14
Minnesota 13
Tennessee 13
Virginia 11
Indiana 8
Washington 8
Colorado 8
Oklahoma 6
Iowa 4
Arkansas 4

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