Katharina
Where Katharina comes from
Katharina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1499Katharina von Bora bornwife of Martin Luther
- 1881Debut at its peak, #740#740 among girls with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1889The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1996Katharina Schmid bornGerman female ski jumper
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Katharina von Bora · wife of Martin Luther, 1499–1552
- Katharina Schmid · German female ski jumper, born 1996
- Katharina Liensberger · Austrian female alpine skier, born 1997
- Katharina Molitor · German javelin thrower, born 1983
- Katharina Fritsch · German sculptor, born 1956
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.