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Catherine name image The table below indicates the number of times the name Catherine has been given to baby boys in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Catherine
Use of the Name Catherine for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
43000000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Catherine has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Catherine
 Used as a Boy NameUsed as a Girl Name
YearRankCountRankCount
1880  31688
1881  40635
1882  42726
1883  36853
1884784743874
1885  45846
1886  45916
1887953544967
18889426421,212
1889  421,198
1890  441,232
18918646421,218
1892  421,334
1893  421,335
1894  411,430
1895  381,514
1896  401,594
1897  421,511
1898  411,705
1899  361,628
1900  342,081
1901  381,598
1902  311,896
1903  321,915
19048209311,984
1905  282,199
1906  262,230
1907  252,456
190889110222,747
1909  232,894
1910  223,156
1911  203,553
1912  214,652
1913  225,287
1914  186,612
1915  198,177
1916  208,471
1917  188,677
1918  208,851
1919  248,333
1920  218,873
1921  238,876
1922  248,526
1923  248,440
1924  278,369
1925  297,874
1926  307,459
1927  317,252
1928  336,908
1929  346,258
1930  356,297
1931  365,631
1932  405,448
1933  444,903
1934  424,940
1935  424,693
1936  444,533
1937  474,453
1938  484,521
1939  494,586
1940  534,574
1941  514,879
1942  495,265
1943  485,425
1944  495,240
1945  505,034
1946  486,367
1947  467,871
1948  418,247
1949  379,121
1950  349,663
1951  3410,547
1952  3411,042
1953  3510,818
1954  3211,081
1955  2811,623
1956  2812,066
1957  3711,150
1958  3810,760
1959  4010,014
1960  429,530
1961  489,240
1962  538,693
1963  538,290
1964  548,232
1965  577,250
1966  546,957
1967  556,352
1968  566,127
1969  586,081
1970  595,999
1971  655,330
1972  654,688
1973  674,267
1974  734,184
1975  733,936
1976  723,769
1977  753,839
1978  723,951
1979  783,873
1980  774,077
1981  734,051
1982  734,081
1983  664,246
1984  694,224
1985  654,286
1986  674,235
1987  744,098
1988  694,496
1989  674,556
1990  714,895
1991  734,803
1992  784,531
1993  754,465
1994  854,094
1995  903,851
1996  953,733
1997  963,590
1998  1023,344
1999  983,396
2000  813,793
2001  803,716
2002  1013,280
2003  1063,215
2004  1043,127
Totals:  43 631,583

During the last 125 years, parents have used Catherine as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Catherine appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 6 times during the last 125 years.


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