Kathryne

Where Kathryne comes from

Kathryne 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
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #556
    16 babies named Kathryne — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1890
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,099.
  4. 1979
    Kathryne Maundu born
    Kenyan lawyer, corporate executive, counselor and mentor, who serves as the Corporation Secretary of Safaricom
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kathryne Maundu · Kenyan lawyer, corporate executive, counselor and mentor, who serves as the Corporation Secretary of Safaricom, born 1979

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.