Kathleen

Where Kathleen comes from

Anglicization of Caitlín, an Irish equivalent of the English Catherine.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kathleen
  • Irish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #352 among girls — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1949
    Peak, #9
    26,357 babies named Kathleen — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1953
    Kathleen Kennedy born
    American film producer
  4. 1954
    Kathleen Turner born
    American actress
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #34.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes
  • Kathleen Turner · American actress, born 1954
  • Kathleen Kennedy · American film producer, born 1953
  • Kathleen Lonsdale · Irish crystallographer, 1903–1971
  • Kathleen Ferrier · English contralto singer, 1912–1953
  • Kathleen Sebelius · United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, born 1948

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.