How rare is the name Katheryn?

10,471 people in the United States have the first name Katheryn, about 1 in 28,845. It ranks #2,390 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KATHERYN

#2,390

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,471
About
1 in 28,845
This common or more
79.6%
Who bears it

Of the 10,471 people named Katheryn, 75.2% reported their origin as White, 14.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.2% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Katheryn peaked in 1990, when 213 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
213
In 2025*
45 ▼79%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 15,220 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.

Katheryn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #968. The largest share of babies named Katheryn, 19.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1880s#1,138122
1890s#1,065203
1900s#1,031302
1910s#9681,192
1920s#1,0571,543
1930s#1,319891
1940s#1,2491,243
1950s#1,2661,745
1960s#1,6431,189
1970s#2,006962
1980s#1,6491,598
1990s#1,7841,862
2000s#2,7371,321
2010s#4,152786
2020s#6,188261
Before 19012.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2718.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4511.6%
Baby boom 1946–6419.7%
Generation X 1965–8010.6%
Millennials 1981–9618.7%
Generation Z 1997–1213.7%
2013 and later5%

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 Katheryn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Katheryn has been most common in West Virginia (2.3×), Missouri (2.1×), and Texas (1.9×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.23×).

8,226 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.

Either side of Katheryn

#2,388 Francesco · 10,482#2,389 Maximo · 10,476#2,391 Samson · 10,470#2,392 Soledad · 10,465

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Katheryn, most common first.

#96 Katherine · 470,588#162 Kathryn · 316,032#4,506 Katherin · 4,109#5,329 Kathryne · 3,247#6,662 Kateryna · 2,384#6,696 Kathyrn · 2,367#7,807 Kathern · 1,909#8,000 Kathrin · 1,842

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