Kàthleen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kàthleen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Burkina Faso it is the 71st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Anglicization of Caitlín, an Irish equivalent of the English Catherine.
- USUnited States1 in 608(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 3.6K
- SESweden1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- 1 in 608 (inferred from the name graph)
547,321 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kathleen in US United States, BF Burkina Faso.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicization of Caitlín, an Irish equivalent of the English Catherine.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kàthleen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 547,321 | 1 in 608 | 547K | Kathleen | 145 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,575 | 1 in 38K | 5.6K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 475 | 1 in 21K | 475 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 350 | 1 in 143K | 359 | — | 8 |
| GY Guyana | — | 210 | 1 in 3.6K | 210 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 199 | 1 in 26K | 199 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 170 | 1 in 35K | 170 | — | — |
| BF Burkina Faso | #71 | — | — | — | Kathleen | 3 |
547,321 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kàthleen mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicization of Caitlín, an Irish equivalent of the English Catherine. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- Is Kàthleen a male or female name?
- Kàthleen 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.
- In which country does Kàthleen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 547 thousand people named Kàthleen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kathleen.
- Where is Kàthleen most common?
- Kàthleen is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 608 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kàthleen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 547,321 people named Kàthleen in 2020, about 1 in 608 residents.
- How common is Kàthleen compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Kàthleen is the 71st most common given name of 2,590 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A0thleenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kàthleen” — the 71st most common given name in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.