Catharine
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek, of less common usage, variant of Catherine (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
Catharine is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 6,285 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- NLNetherlands1 in 7K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K
- CACanada≈1 in 29K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
6,285 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A female given name from Ancient Greek, of less common usage, variant of Catherine.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Catharine, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Catharine 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 | 6,285 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Catharine | 324 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 3 | Catharine | 147 |
| NL Netherlands | 2,466 | 1 in 7K | 2.4K | Catharine | 26 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 5 | Catharine | 134 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Catharine | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 3 | Catharine | 97 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Catharine | 29 |
6,285 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Catharine MacKinnonb. 1946USAmerican feminist and legal activist
- Drew Gilpin Faustb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican historian and board member, director at Goldman Sachs
- Sarah Paulsonb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
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)47 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Catharine a male or female name?
- Catharine is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Catharine mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, of less common usage, variant of Catherine. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Catharine?
- In the etymology graph, Kathleen, Catherine and Katherine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Catharine?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Catharine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled catharine. After it come United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Catharine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Catharine is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 7.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Catharine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,285 people named Catharine in 2020, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Catharine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/catharineThe 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, “Catharine” — ranked 3369th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.