Catharina
The girl's name Catharina has been in the national records since 1948, with 332 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 320 Catharinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Catharina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 332
- Estimated living today
- 320
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 5,836th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,860th
- First recorded
- 1948
How old the living Catharinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 332 babies given the name since 1948, about 320 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Catharinas
- Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange (born 2003)heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Catharina of Württemberg (1783–1835)Queen consort of Westphalia
- Catharina Lodders (born 1942)Dutch beauty pageant contestant
- Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau (1578–1648)Countess of Orange-Nassau by birth and by marriage Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg
- Catharina Svensson (born 1982)Danish beauty pageant contestant and lawyer
- Catharina Ahlgren (1734–1810)Swedish writer and journalist, editor
- Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717–1795)German botanist, botanical artist, author, translator, editor and governess
- Catharina Roodzant (1896–1999)Dutch chess player
People named Catharina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1989
The most popular girls’ names the year Catharina peaked:
Catharina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Catharina | 471 | 237th |
| France girls | Catharina | 290 | 1,812th |
| Belgium girls | Catharina | 137 | 518th |
| England and Wales girls | Catharina | 9 | 5,591st |
| Ireland girls | Catharina | 6 | 508th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Catharina: rank by region
In 2018, Catharina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Catharina | 738 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Catharina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Catharina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Catharina | 81,284 | 231,454 |
| the Netherlands boys | Catharina | 14 | 10,607 |
| Finland girls | Catharina | 215 | 711 |
Among boys in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 10,607 who carry it, 14 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Catharina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.