Cathrine
Where Cathrine comes from
Cathrine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1880First SSA yearAlready #466 among girls — 13 babies in the first year on record.
- 1881Peak, #39318 babies named Cathrine — more than any year before or since.
- 1967Cathrine Roll-Matthiesen bornNorwegian handball player
- 1970Cathrine Lindahl bornSwedish female curler
- 2012The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #12,199.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Cathrine Lindahl · Swedish female curler, born 1970
- Cathrine Roll-Matthiesen · Norwegian handball player, born 1967
- Cathrine Dufour · Danish dressage rider, born 1992
- Cathrine Larsåsen · Norwegian pole vaulter, born 1986
- Cathrine Dekkerhus · Norwegian footballer, born 1992
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.