Catharine

Where Catharine comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Catharine.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Catharine through the years
  1. 1800
    Catharine Beecher born
    United States educator
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #294 among girls, with 28 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Peak, #249
    52 babies named Catharine, its best rank.
  4. 1946
    Catharine MacKinnon born
    American feminist and legal activist
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #7,066.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, of less common usage, variant of Catherine.
Namesakes
  • Catharine MacKinnon · American feminist and legal activist, born 1946
  • Catharine Beecher · United States educator, 1800–1878
  • 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

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.