# Cathrine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cathrine/  
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 | 7,716 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 7,716 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 20, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 36 | 3,817 |
| 2004 | 49 | 3,137 |
| 2005 | 28 | 4,730 |
| 2006 | 26 | 5,265 |
| 2007 | 17 | 7,458 |
| 2008 | 18 | 7,137 |
| 2009 | 21 | 6,359 |
| 2010 | 16 | 7,602 |
| 2011 | 12 | 9,276 |
| 2012 | 8 | 12,447 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,203 |
| 2014 | 9 | 11,171 |
| 2015 | 8 | 12,063 |
| 2017 | 9 | 10,868 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16,018 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 7 | 2,096 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 1999 | 4 | 3,225 |
| 2010 | 6 | 3,533 |

## People named Cathrine

- Cathrine Dufour, Danish dressage rider
- Cathrine Kraayeveld, American basketball player (born 1981)
- Cathrine Paaske-Sørensen, Danish footballer
- Elisabeth Dons, Danish opera singer (1864-1942)

## 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.