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Kathryne

About 5,959 American babies have been named Kathryne since 1880, most of them around 1990. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 3,400 Kathrynes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kathryne

By the numbers

Total US births
5,959
Estimated living today
3,400
Median age today
42
Peak year
1990
Best rank
1,356th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1880

How old the living Kathrynes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,959 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,400 are alive — 57 in every hundred. Roughly 200 of them are children and 930 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 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 Kathryne is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kathryne is most concentrated in California (2.5×), Pennsylvania (2.4×), Texas (2.4×), Illinois (1.4×).

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

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Kathryne peaked:

All the names of 1990

Kathryne elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Kathryne 15 1,958th

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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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.