Meaning and history
French form of Katherine and also a common English variant, Catherine is the usual English spelling for historical figures such as Catherine de' Medici and Catherine the Great.
20062006: 2,793 births, rank #121
2007: 2,472 births, rank #142
2008: 2,323 births, rank #148
2009: 1,892 births, rank #176
2010: 1,612 births, rank #193
20112011: 1,937 births, rank #161
2012: 1,913 births, rank #165
2013: 1,868 births, rank #170
2014: 1,945 births, rank #170
2015: 1,807 births, rank #177
20162016: 1,669 births, rank #195
2017: 1,584 births, rank #198
2018: 1,507 births, rank #205
2019: 1,312 births, rank #241
2020: 1,155 births, rank #267
20212021: 1,005 births, rank #323
2022: 981 births, rank #328
2023: 933 births, rank #331
2024: 956 births, rank #322
20252025: 972 births, rank #313
Catherine rose from #324 to #314 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1956, with 12,056 births.