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Cathleen vs Catrece

American parents have registered 29,933 Cathleens since 1880, against 47 Catreces. Cathleen is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cathleen against Catrece, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cathleen Catrece

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Cathleen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1896 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1973, when Cathleen had 367 and Catrece had 9.

Side by side

  Cathleen Catrece
Total US births 29,93347
Most in one year 1,15914
Babies in 2025 10under 5
Estimated living today 24,00040
Median age today 6354
Peak year 19581969
Best rank 255th girls3,774th girls
Rank in 2025 9,457thunranked
First recorded 18961969
Girls / boys 29,923 / 1047 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cathleens alive today are over 63; half the Catreces are over 54. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cathleen and Catrece.