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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Catherine

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#314

up +10 places

2025 births

972

up +16 births

All-time births

667,789

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
12,056 births
Best rank
#18
in 1914
First recorded
1880
#31 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1952
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 195612,056#28Peak
  2. 195511,636#28
  3. 195711,151#37
  4. 195411,079#32
  5. 195211,053#34

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #18 in 1914 · peak births 12,056 in 1956

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

1,822 boys · 667,789 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Catherine has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.