Kathrin

given name · German · Latin script

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

Kathrin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Katrin; Cathrin; Catrín: weibl.

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, Katherine in PE Peru, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and 1 more and Katarzyna in PL Poland, SE Sweden.

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●

) Katrin; Cathrin; Catrín: weibl.

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Kathrin 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●

  • German190K86%
  • English15K7%
  • Spanish2.2K1%
  • Portuguese1.5K1%
  • French1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German189,83586%
English14,5937%
Spanish2,1811%
Portuguese1,5091%
French1,1821%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name6.7K records spelled Kathrin7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, France, Spain, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Kathrĭn, Káthrin

  • Finnish given name575 records spelled Kathrin3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Switzerland, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Käthrin

  • a separate given name165 records spelled Kathrin2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States

    Also written Kãthrīn

38 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.

Over time●

01020304019201940196019802000202036 · 1990

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Kathrin in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2021
Yearrecords
19146
19157
19165
19187
19236
19245
19276
19285
19295
19355
19375
19398
19425
194414
194513
19466
194718
194810
194914
195011
195116
195226
195314
195426
195518
195613
195721
195818
195921
196021
196113
196215
196318
196415
196520
196616
196712
196817
196918
197021
197117
197210
197313
197415
197518
197617
197719
197820
197925
198022
198124
198221
198314
198419
198521
198615
198715
198828
198923
199036
199124
199219
199321
199427
199516
199618
199722
199810
199913
200015
20015
200212
200313
200412
20058
200610
200713
20088
20099
20106
201110
20136
20215

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 83 years between 1914–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Kathrin Schmidt, b. 1958Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff, b. 1960Kathrin Neimke, b. 1966Kathrin Boron, b. 1969Kate Beckinsale, b. 1973Kathrin Kühnel, b. 1977Kathrin Klaas, b. 1984Kathrin Wörle, b. 1984Kathrin Zettel, b. 1986Kathrin Hendrich, b. 1992

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 50 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Kathrin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20245.5K#872
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,000
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—928#1,728
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—644#2,309
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020332—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025260—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024255—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023254—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022253—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021252—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2019250—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2020248—

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 · 418 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kathrin?
We estimate roughly 2.1 million people bear Kathrin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Kathrin have the most bearers?
Kathrin is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled екатерина.
Where is Kathrin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kathrin is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 45 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Kathrin compared with other names?
In Russia, Kathrin is the 16th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Kathrin a male or female name?
Kathrin 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 Kathrin mean?
Recorded meaning: ) Katrin; Cathrin; Catrín: weibl.
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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, “Kathrin” — the 16th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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