Cathleen

Where Cathleen comes from

The dictionaries list Cathleen as a given name — a female given name from Irish, a less common spelling of Kathleen — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1888
    Cathleen Nesbitt born
    British actress
  2. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,213 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1923
    Cathleen Synge Morawetz born
    Canadian mathematician
  4. 1956
    Peak, #251
    1,115 babies named Cathleen — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #401.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish, a less common spelling of Kathleen.
Namesakes
  • Cathleen Synge Morawetz · Canadian mathematician, 1923–2017
  • Cathleen Nesbitt · British actress, 1888–1982
  • Cathleen Tschirch · German athlete and athletics coach, born 1979
  • Cathleen Martini · German bobsledder, born 1982
  • Cathleen Rund · German swimmer, born 1977

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.