Katharina

Where Katharina comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Katharina.

  • Vowel-ended
Katharina through the years
  1. 1499
    Katharina von Bora born
    wife of Martin Luther
  2. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #740
    #740 among girls with 6 babies in the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1996
    Katharina Schmid born
    German female ski jumper
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Katharina von Bora · wife of Martin Luther, 1499–1552
  • Katharina Schmid · German female ski jumper, born 1996
  • Katharina Liensberger · Austrian female alpine skier, born 1997
  • Katharina Molitor · German javelin thrower, born 1983
  • Katharina Fritsch · German sculptor, born 1956

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.