Katrine
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Catherine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʰad̥ʁinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Katrine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 471(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.2K
- SESweden1 in 9.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 471 (inferred from the name graph)
12,454 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Katrīne in LV Latvia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
German and Danish contracted form of Katharine, now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Katrine is read(measured from records)
Katrine is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Danish29%
a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Catherine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English28%
A female given name from Ancient Greek of Danish origin, occasionally used in English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
loch, Scotland
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Norwegian13%
a female given name of Danish origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Katrine in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Katrine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #111 | 12,454 | 1 in 471 | 12K | Katrine | 162 |
| NO Norway | #173 | 4,653 | 1 in 1.2K | 18K | Katrine | 97 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,987 | 1 in 71K | 3K | — | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Katrine | 53 |
| SE Sweden | #897 | 1,041 | 1 in 9.8K | 1K | Katrine | 31 |
| LV Latvia | — | 385 | 1 in 4.9K | 385 | Katrīne | 12 |
| GL Greenland | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 110 | — | 8 |
12,454 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Katrine is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German and Danish contracted form of Katharine, now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
German and Danish: contracted form of KATHARINE , now used occasionally in the English-speaking world, in part as an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Caitrín .
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Katrine Boormanb. 1958GBBritish actress
- Trine Hattestadb. 1966NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian javelin thrower
- Anne Holtenb. 1972NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian wrestler
- Katrine Engbergb. 1975DKDanish actress and novelist
- Katrine Pedersenb. 1977DKDanish footballer
- Katrine Fruelundb. 1978DKDanish handball player
- Katrine Lundeb. 1980NONorwegian handball goalkeeper
- Katrine Kielos-Marçalb. 1983SESwedish writer and journalist
- Katrine Murholt Rosenthalb. 1985DKDanish actress
- Katrine Vejeb. 1991DKDanish footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 30 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Katrine come from?
- German and Danish contracted form of Katharine, now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Katrine?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰad̥ʁinə/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What does the name Katrine mean?
- In Danish, a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Catherine
- Is Katrine a male or female name?
- Katrine 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 are other forms of the name Katrine?
- In the etymology graph, Kathleen, Catherine and Katherine are forms of the same name in other languages; Karen, Kari and Ina are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Katrine have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Katrine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katrine.
- Where is Katrine most common?
- Katrine is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 471 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Katrine?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 12,454 people named Katrine, about 1 in 471 residents.
- How common is Katrine compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Katrine is the 111th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Katrine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/katrineThe 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, “Katrine” — the 111th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.