first name
KATHARINE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 29,372 people named Katharine, 89.8% reported their origin as White, 4% as Hispanic or Latino and 2.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Katharine peaked in 1982, when 946 babies got the name.
At least 41,241 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Katharine by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #356. The largest share of babies named Katharine, 27.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Katharine is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Katharine has been most common in Connecticut (2.7×), District of Columbia (2.7×), and Massachusetts (2.4×), and least common in Mississippi (0.09×).
32,071 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Katharine, most common first.
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