Cathleen
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · Last seen for boys in 1964 at #4,039
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1956 · 1,115 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 29,923since 1896
Cathleen over time
Rank among girls' names. Cathleen has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,512 | 46 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,601 | 45 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,444 | 43 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,808 | 52 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,632 | 56 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,073 | 74 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,188 | 65 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,927 | 75 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,881 | 77 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,920 | 72 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,400 | 115 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,460 | 109 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,417 | 115 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,322 | 125 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,265 | 129 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,168 | 140 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,053 | 151 | — | |
| 1987 | #974 | 162 | — | |
| 1986 | #906 | 178 | — | |
| 1985 | #853 | 189 | — | |
| 1984 | #862 | 177 | — | |
| 1983 | #860 | 177 | — | |
| 1982 | #794 | 203 | — | |
| 1981 | #809 | 197 | — | |
| 1980 | #840 | 186 | — | |
| 1979 | #754 | 214 | — | |
| 1978 | #717 | 220 | — | |
| 1977 | #621 | 270 | — | |
| 1976 | #692 | 214 | — | |
| 1975 | #608 | 261 | — | |
| 1974 | #527 | 317 | — | |
| 1973 | #486 | 367 | — | |
| 1972 | #443 | 428 | — | |
| 1971 | #401 | 534 | — | |
| 1970 | #375 | 636 | — | |
| 1969 | #349 | 670 | — | |
| 1968 | #363 | 612 | — | |
| 1967 | #322 | 734 | — | |
| 1966 | #307 | 831 | — | |
| 1965 | #301 | 886 | — | |
| 1964 | #288 | 1,005 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #327 | 822 | — | |
| 1962 | #322 | 848 | — | |
| 1961 | #302 | 931 | — | |
| 1960 | #304 | 950 | — | |
| 1959 | #279 | 1,016 | — | |
| 1958 | #255 | 1,159 | — | |
| 1957 | #264 | 1,071 | — | |
| 1956 | #251 | 1,115 | — | |
| 1955 | #268 | 1,008 | — | |
| 1954 | #287 | 870 | — | |
| 1953 | #292 | 817 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #272 | 877 | — | |
| 1951 | #282 | 772 | — | |
| 1950 | #280 | 759 | — | |
| 1949 | #285 | 733 | — | |
| 1948 | #300 | 653 | — | |
| 1947 | #334 | 568 | — | |
| 1946 | #405 | 356 | — | |
| 1945 | #403 | 311 | — | |
| 1944 | #423 | 287 | — | |
| 1943 | #534 | 199 | — | |
| 1942 | #550 | 182 | — | |
| 1941 | #604 | 136 | — | |
| 1940 | #645 | 116 | — | |
| 1939 | #740 | 85 | — | |
| 1938 | #875 | 64 | — | |
| 1937 | #882 | 61 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,039 | 45 | — | |
| 1935 | #884 | 61 | — | |
| 1934 | #905 | 57 | — | |
| 1933 | #973 | 50 | — | |
| 1932 | #816 | 70 | — | |
| 1931 | #995 | 49 | — | |
| 1930 | #971 | 57 | — | |
| 1929 | #959 | 56 | — | |
| 1928 | #896 | 67 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,057 | 53 | — | |
| 1926 | #866 | 73 | — | |
| 1925 | #870 | 73 | — | |
| 1924 | #880 | 73 | — | |
| 1923 | #828 | 78 | — | |
| 1922 | #949 | 61 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,003 | 56 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,038 | 51 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,075 | 46 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,102 | 44 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,110 | 41 | — | |
| 1916 | #979 | 49 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,190 | 33 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,147 | 28 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,120 | 24 | — | |
| 1912 | #919 | 30 | — | |
| 1911 | #898 | 23 | — | |
| 1910 | #831 | 27 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,015 | 16 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,676 | 7 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1906 | #895 | 17 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,162 | 11 | — | |
| 1904 | #853 | 18 | — | |
| 1903 | #969 | 13 | — | |
| 1902 | #818 | 18 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,679 | 5 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,723 | 6 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,181 | 8 | — | |
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | #1,213 | 8 | — | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Cathleen! It came in at #1,213, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1897–1898, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Cathleen
- 1,014 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #9,457)
- 504 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #9,457)
- 3,421 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #9,457)
- Biggest jump: 861 spots in 1902 (#1,679 → #818)
- Biggest drop: 309 spots in 1905 (#853 → #1,162)
- Debuted 1896
- Peaked 1956 at #251 (1,115 births)
- Births halved by 1971, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 72 yrs · run 1937–1987
- Highest: 1 in 1,736 girls born in 1958 were named Cathleen (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #251 in 1956, was only 1 in 1,801 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.6% of all girls named Cathleen (9,464) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 16 | #1,181 (1899) | #1,197 |
| 1900s | 124 | #818 (1902) | #1,188 |
| 1910s | 345 | #831 (1910) | #1,037 |
| 1920s | 641 | #828 (1923) | #935 |
| 1930s | 599 | #740 (1939) | #908 |
| 1940s | 3,541 | #285 (1949) | #448 |
| 1950s | 9,464 | #251 (1956) | #273 |
| 1960s | 8,289 | #288 (1964) | #319 |
| 1970s | 3,461 | #375 (1970) | #562 |
| 1980s | 1,760 | #794 (1982) | #912 |
| 1990s | 956 | #1,265 (1990) | #1,685 |
| 2000s | 461 | #2,632 (2000) | #3,327 |
| 2010s | 202 | #4,336 (2013) | #6,711 |
| 2020s | 64 | #8,032 (2022) | #9,343 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cathleen in 1953
Top girls' names in 1953
Top boys' names in 1953
More about 1953
girls
1,881,301 girls got a published name in 1953; 1 in 2,303 of them was named Cathleen, which outranked 95.5% of the 6,497 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,972,299 boys got a published name in 1953; 1 in 394,460 of them was named Cathleen, which outranked 12.5% of the 4,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 543 names at #3,798; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.