# Catharina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/catharina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 332 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 332 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | 10,267 |
| 2002 | 6 | 13,922 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12,043 |
| 2006 | 7 | 13,879 |
| 2007 | 6 | 15,873 |
| 2009 | 5 | 17,835 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,068 |
| 2016 | 5 | 16,771 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,507 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,595 |
| 2021 | 9 | 10,457 |
| 2022 | 6 | 13,948 |
| 2023 | 8 | 11,387 |
| 2024 | 5 | 15,744 |
| 2025 | 11 | 8,979 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |

## People named Catharina

- Catharina Lodders, Dutch beauty pageant contestant
- Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Countess of Orange-Nassau by birth and by marriage Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg (1578-1648
- Catharina Svensson, Danish beauty pageant contestant and lawyer
- Catharina Helena Dörrien, German botanist, botanical artist, author, translator, editor and governess (1717–1795)
- Catharina Roodzant, Dutch chess player (1896–1999)
- Catharina van Rees, Dutch poet, writer and composer, editor (1831-1915)
- Catharina Neelissen, Dutch rower
- Catharina Halkes, Dutch theologian (1920–2011)
- Catharina Cramer, German/Dutch midwife
- Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, Austrian writer and noble
- Anna Catharina Materna, Danish actor and playwright (1731-1757)
- Catharina Julia Roeters van Lennep, Dutch painter and illustrator (1813-1883)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.