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Katheryn

The girl's name Katheryn has been in the national records since 1880, with 15,220 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,389th. About 10,000 Katheryns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Katheryn

By the numbers

Total US births
15,220
Estimated living today
10,000
Median age today
40
Peak year
1990
Best rank
900th
Rank in 2025
3,389th
First recorded
1880

How old the living Katheryns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 15,220 babies given the name since 1880, about 10,000 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Katheryns

People named Katheryn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Katheryn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Katheryn is most concentrated in West Virginia (2.3×), Missouri (2.1×), Texas (1.9×), Oklahoma (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Katheryn peaked:

All the names of 1990

Katheryn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Katheryn 54 1,365th
Ireland girls Katheryn 4 357th

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.

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.