Kathrine

Where Kathrine comes from

Kathrine 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
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #352 among girls — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #326
    29 babies named Kathrine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1947
    Kathrine Switzer born
    American marathon runner, author, and television commentator
  4. 1992
    Kathrine Heindahl born
    Danish handball player
  5. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #8,032.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kathrine Switzer · American marathon runner, author, and television commentator, born 1947
  • Kathrine Heindahl · Danish handball player, born 1992
  • Kathrine Taylor · American writer, 1903–1997
  • Kathrine Kühl · Danish association football player, born 2003
  • Kathrine Harsem · Norwegian cross-country skier, born 1989

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.