Catharina
- #8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1955 · 8 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 332since 1948
Catharina over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Catharina has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | — | |
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| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
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| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 |
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| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
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First appearance
1948
The first year at least five girls were named Catharina! It came in at #5,243, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Catharina is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Catharina in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Catharina
Momentum · girls
Rising
- 6,433 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #8,860)
- 6,228 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
7 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1955 at #4,376 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1956, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 131,682
- Highest: 1 in 131,682 girls born in 1989 were named Catharina (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,376 in 1955, was only 1 in 244,410 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 19.0% of all girls named Catharina (63) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,243 (1948) | #5,243 |
| 1950s | 15 | #4,376 (1955) | #4,704 |
| 1960s | 49 | #4,882 (1961) | #5,945 |
| 1970s | 55 | #5,011 (1974) | #7,205 |
| 1980s | 39 | #5,836 (1989) | #8,485 |
| 1990s | 63 | #8,052 (1993) | #11,090 |
| 2000s | 46 | #10,102 (2001) | #13,850 |
| 2010s | 16 | #14,124 (2017) | #15,629 |
| 2020s | 44 | #8,860 (2025) | #12,382 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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