Kathryn

Where Kathryn comes from

The dictionaries list Kathryn as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #102 among girls — 204 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1951
    Kathryn Bigelow born
    American filmmaker
  3. 1951
    Peak, #45
    8,460 babies named Kathryn — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #87.
  5. 1973
    Kathryn Hahn born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine.
Namesakes
  • Kathryn Bigelow · American filmmaker, born 1951
  • Kathryn Hahn · American actress, born 1973
  • Kathryn D. Sullivan · American astronaut, born 1951
  • Kathryn Newton · American actress, born 1997
  • Kathryn Grayson · American actress and coloratura soprano, 1922–2010

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.