Katleen
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/katleen/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Katleen is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 99K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 119K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Katleen
- Spanish:/katleen/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Dutch:/kaː.tleːn/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/kɐtlɛẽ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 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 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 9 | Katleen | 88 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Katleen | 40 |
| FR France | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 690 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 565 | 1 in 589K | 559 | Katleen | 154 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 549K | — | Katleen | 9 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 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
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Katleen?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /katleen/; in Dutch /kaː.tleːn/; in Portuguese /kɐtlɛẽ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Katleen a male or female name?
- Katleen is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2015), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- Which countries have the most people named Katleen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Katleen in Belgium, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katleen. After it come Philippines, France, United States and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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?
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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” — ranked 801st in Belgium (Statbel). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.