# Catharine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/catharine/  
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 | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 12,994 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 12,994 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 56, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 22 | 6,015 |
| 2011 | 19 | 6,615 |
| 2012 | 11 | 9,857 |
| 2013 | 16 | 7,465 |
| 2014 | 23 | 5,655 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,063 |
| 2016 | 12 | 9,004 |
| 2017 | 13 | 8,378 |
| 2018 | 9 | 10,742 |
| 2019 | 10 | 9,881 |
| 2020 | 10 | 9,702 |
| 2021 | 8 | 11,328 |
| 2022 | 6 | 13,949 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,658 |
| 2024 | 7 | 12,417 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 14 | 1,296 |
| 1997 | 10 | 1,666 |
| 1998 | 6 | 2,407 |
| 1999 | 11 | 1,557 |
| 2001 | 4 | 3,262 |
| 2002 | 5 | 2,868 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |

## People named Catharine

- Catharine MacKinnon, American feminist and legal activist
- Catharine Macaulay, English historian, philosopher, feminist (1731-1791)
- Catharine Trotter, English novelist, dramatist, philosopher (1674-1749)
- Catharine Parr Traill, English-Canadian author and botanical artist (1802-1899)
- Catharine Sedgwick, American writer 1789-1867
- Catharine Garmany, astronomer
- Catharine van Tussenbroek, Dutch physician and writer, editor (1852–1925)
- Catharine Macfarlane, American obstetrician and gynecologist
- Sarah Paulson, American actress
- Drew Gilpin Faust, American historian and board member, director at Goldman Sachs
- Kate Starbird, American computer scientist and basketball player

## 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.