Cathryn
Cathryn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 451st, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1956368 births
- Best rank
- #451in 1950
- Since 1882
- 16,322people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,322 girls have been named Cathryn in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 368 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1950s alone account for 20%. It has spent 94 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Cathryn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 74 | |
| 1890s | 183 | |
| 1900s | 242 | |
| 1910s | 981 | |
| 1920s | 1,187 | |
| 1930s | 798 | |
| 1940s | 1,637 | |
| 1950s | 3,271 | |
| 1960s | 2,015 | |
| 1970s | 1,352 | |
| 1980s | 1,524 | |
| 1990s | 1,451 | |
| 2000s | 1,022 | |
| 2010s | 490 | |
| 2020s | 95 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Cathryn was the 485th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Cathryn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kathrynpeak 1952
- Margaritapeak 1957
- Annepeak 1959
- Kathyrnpeak 1953
- Merylpeak 1956
- Katherynpeak 1990
- Elbapeak 1956
- Felicepeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.