Katleen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəəɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Katleen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 164K
- USUnited States1 in 589K
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.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Katleen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #749 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 9 | Katleen | 88 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Katleen | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 690 | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Katleen | 40 |
| US United States | — | 565 | 1 in 589K | 559 | Katleen | 154 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 2 | Katleen | 12 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 43 | 1 in 119K | 43 | Katleen | 4 |
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; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Katleen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gv, a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Kathleen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Katleen Martensb. 1969BEFlemish politician
- Katleen Gabrielsb. 1983BEphilosopher from Belgium
- Katleen Buryb. 1983BEBelgian politician
- Katleen Strunkb. 2000DEGerman association football player
- Katleen GoossensBEBelgian film producer
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 32 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2015 | 690 | #3,063 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 559 | #18,929 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 43 | #3,642 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 9 | #801 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #18,929 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 2 | #1,372 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Katleen?
- A machine transcription gives /kəəɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Katleen a male or female name?
- Katleen 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 Katleen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Katleen in Belgium, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katleen.
- How common is the name Katleen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 565 people named Katleen in 2020, about 1 in 589 thousand residents.
- How common is Katleen compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Katleen is the 749th most common given name of 59,589 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Katleen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/katleenThe 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, “Katleen” — the 749th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.