Katherine

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Katherine is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Greek name of uncertain meaning; brought to Western Europe by crusaders and established in Ireland.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 45◐
  • BYBelarus1 in 61
  • PLPoland1 in 64

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.1M ●

across 12 countries

#28 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
560 ●

25M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 45 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

ЕкатеринаCyrillic · Russian●16M records
CatherineLatin · English●5.4M records
ᲔკატერინეGeorgian · Georgian●70K records
קטרינהHebrew · Hebrew●7.4K records
แคทรีนThai · Thai●144 records
ԵկատերինաArmenian · Armenian●6 records
ΚαθρινGreek · Greek●4 records
ক্যাথারিনBengali · Bangla●2 records
에카테리나Hangul · Korean●1 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Catherine in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 6 more, Екатерина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more, Katarzyna in PL Poland, SE Sweden and Katrin in DE Germany, AT Austria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Greek name of uncertain meaning; brought to Western Europe by crusaders and established in Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Katherine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#1615,638,6485.7M rec.—#13Екатерина257
UA Ukraine#254,470,5684.5M rec.—listedКатерина140
GB United Kingdom#221,012,998841K rec.—26Catherine286
AU Australia#16707,342490K rec.—98Catherine278
PL Poland#5602,474△118K rec.1 in 64602KKatarzyna253
US United States#29470,18411M rec.1 in 707470KCatherine560
DE Germany#43434,468395K rec.—4Katrin232
FR France—394,715△1.4K rec.1 in 172395KEkaterine77
CA Canada#24311,102261K rec.—12Catherine253
TR Türkiye#322310,76728K rec.——Екатерина37
PH Philippines#50240,151199K rec.——Catherine158
CZ Czechia#18236,254△19K rec.1 in 45236KKaterina164

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English4.5M70%
  • Spanish954K15%
  • 309K5%
  • Portuguese77K1%
  • French41K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English4,522,16770%
Spanish953,76715%
308,9955%
Portuguese77,2421%
French40,6821%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Katherine is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name1.2M records spelled Katherine17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Chile, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Käthërïnë, Kátherine, K'Atherine, Katherĭne, Katheríne

  • a separate given name331K records spelled Katherine2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Kátherine

  • Hungarian given name8.0K records spelled Katherine4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Käthërïnë

70 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Katherine is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Pure form of Catherine; also used as an independent name

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  • In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek, a popular spelling variant of Catherine.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, river town, Australia

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200012K · 1990

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Katherine in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880502
1881504
1882591
1883583
1884671
1885751
1886744
1887794
1888893
1889889
1890900
1891803
1892961
1893963
1894948
1895968
18961,047
1897962
1898914
1899942
19001,201
1901890
19021,004
19031,015
19041,128
19051,190
19061,277
19071,413
19081,430
19091,557
19101,752
19111,858
19122,546
19132,794
19143,652
19154,488
19164,801
19174,956
19185,191
19194,846
19205,276
19215,156
19224,827
19234,579
19244,695
19254,240
19263,834
19273,724
19283,398
19293,016
19303,033
19312,624
19322,588
19332,330
19342,388
19352,340
19362,355
19372,484
19382,575
19392,476
19402,709
19413,004
19423,376
19433,616
19443,525
19453,393
19464,197
19474,884
19485,169
19496,039
19506,205
19516,930
19526,891
19536,559
19546,740
19557,239
19567,082
19576,637
19586,433
19596,139
19605,876
19615,632
19625,272
19635,124
19645,074
19654,706
19664,492
19674,560
19684,716
19695,167
19705,443
19715,120
19724,514
19734,420
19744,530
19754,851
19765,051
19776,030
19786,625
19797,464
19808,017
19818,433
19829,179
19839,684
198410,157
198510,128
198610,570
198710,438
198811,154
198911,415
199011,625
199111,495
199211,149
199310,506
19949,586
19958,987
19968,877
19978,518
19988,207
19997,935
20008,109
20017,880
20027,212
20037,126
20046,742
20056,392
20066,295
20075,818
20085,350
20094,432
20103,870
20114,189
20123,953
20133,723
20143,691
20153,454
20163,276
20172,861
20182,677
20192,450
20201,991
20211,821
20221,742
20231,705
20241,746
20251,670

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Catherine Opalińska, b. 1680Katherine Mansfield, b. 1888Mira Sorvino, b. 1967Catherine Zeta-Jones, b. 1969Kate Moss, b. 1974Katherine Heigl, b. 1978Natalya, b. 1982Kat Dennings, b. 1986Kate Upton, b. 1992Katherine Langford, b. 1996
  • Catherine Opalińskab. 1680PLnot in their usual namePolish queen (1680-1747)
  • Katherine Mansfieldb. 1888NZNew Zealand author (1888–1923)
  • Mira Sorvinob. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Catherine Zeta-Jonesb. 1969GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1969)
  • Kate Mossb. 1974GBnot in their usual nameEnglish model and businesswoman
  • Katherine Heiglb. 1978USAmerican actress (born 1978)
  • Natalyab. 1982CAnot in their usual nameCanadian professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager
  • Kat Denningsb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1986)
  • Kate Uptonb. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican model and actress (born 1992)
  • Katherine Langfordb. 1996AUAustralian actress (born 1996)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 94 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Katherine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020470K#96
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202441K#37
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—14K#25
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.9K#3,998
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.6K#1,439
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.9K#907
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.6K#6,968
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20211.4K#2,963
DO Dominican RepublicDominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-20232023898#10
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—768#1,915

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,481 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Katherine?
We estimate roughly 2.1 million people bear Katherine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Katherine have the most bearers?
Katherine is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled екатерина.
Where is Katherine most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katherine is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 45 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Katherine compared with other names?
In Russia, Katherine is the 16th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Katherine a male or female name?
Katherine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Katherine mean?
Recorded meaning: Greek name of uncertain meaning; brought to Western Europe by crusaders and established in Ireland.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Katherine” — the 16th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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