How popular is “Katherine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Katherine” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Katherine” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Katherine” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Katherine” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Katherine” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Katherine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Katherine” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	507	0.002516329	502	5	98%
1881	504	0.002615627	504		100%
1882	591	0.002667774	591		100%
1883	583	0.002687305	583		100%
1884	671	0.002756088	671		100%
1885	751	0.003118071	751		100%
1886	744	0.002914036	744		100%
1887	794	0.003209481	794		100%
1888	893	0.002981895	893		100%
1889	889	0.0030767	889		100%
1890	900	0.002986055	900		100%
1891	808	0.002818542	803	5	99%
1892	961	0.002874027	961		100%
1893	963	0.002961045	963		100%
1894	948	0.00279902	948		100%
1895	968	0.002757678	968		100%
1896	1047	0.002928803	1047		100%
1897	962	0.002772678	962		100%
1898	914	0.002396089	914		100%
1899	942	0.002776844	942		100%
1900	1201	0.00266736	1201		100%
1901	890	0.002573653	890		100%
1902	1009	0.002609035	1004	5	99%
1903	1020	0.002675761	1015	5	99%
1904	1139	0.002822906	1128	11	98%
1905	1190	0.00280712	1190		100%
1906	1277	0.002980504	1277		100%
1907	1418	0.003046907	1413	5	99%
1908	1430	0.002926436	1430		100%
1909	1565	0.00306128	1557	8	99%
1910	1752	0.002965917	1752		100%
1911	1863	0.002891609	1858	5	99%
1912	2546	0.002576761	2546		100%
1913	2804	0.0024659	2794	10	99%
1914	3660	0.002584118	3652	8	100%
1915	4496	0.002453578	4488	8	100%
1916	4814	0.002488605	4801	13	99%
1917	4970	0.002476641	4956	14	99%
1918	5203	0.002396469	5191	12	100%
1919	4857	0.002301628	4846	11	100%
1920	5293	0.0023393	5276	17	99%
1921	5168	0.002213746	5156	12	100%
1922	4840	0.002114316	4827	13	99%
1923	4603	0.001999148	4579	24	99%
1924	4713	0.001978913	4695	18	99%
1925	4253	0.001822739	4240	13	99%
1926	3853	0.001678205	3834	19	99%
1927	3742	0.001613377	3724	18	99%
1928	3417	0.00151132	3398	19	99%
1929	3029	0.001381742	3016	13	99%
1930	3055	0.001374091	3033	22	99%
1931	2637	0.001253096	2624	13	99%
1932	2602	0.001232421	2588	14	99%
1933	2344	0.001172324	2330	14	99%
1934	2403	0.00115706	2388	15	99%
1935	2354	0.00112637	2340	14	99%
1936	2368	0.001139789	2355	13	99%
1937	2498	0.001172401	2484	14	99%
1938	2582	0.001166967	2575	7	99%
1939	2489	0.001129596	2476	13	99%
1940	2719	0.001180795	2709	10	99%
1941	3019	0.001239111	3004	15	99%
1942	3389	0.001240566	3376	13	99%
1943	3630	0.001286067	3616	14	99%
1944	3538	0.001315203	3525	13	99%
1945	3404	0.001283119	3392	12	99%
1946	4201	0.001314741	4196	5	100%
1947	4904	0.001361344	4885	19	99%
1948	5179	0.001500065	5169	10	100%
1949	6058	0.001738419	6039	19	99%
1950	6214	0.001773727	6205	9	100%
1951	6938	0.001883412	6930	8	100%
1952	6908	0.00181885	6891	17	100%
1953	6572	0.001705399	6559	13	100%
1954	6756	0.001697186	6740	16	100%
1955	7255	0.001806938	7240	15	100%
1956	7102	0.001722517	7081	21	99%
1957	6654	0.001583478	6637	17	99%
1958	6450	0.001560268	6433	17	99%
1959	6152	0.00147956	6138	14	100%
1960	5900	0.001420381	5876	24	99%
1961	5651	0.001364218	5632	19	99%
1962	5280	0.00130843	5271	9	100%
1963	5143	0.001299328	5125	18	99%
1964	5090	0.001309289	5073	17	99%
1965	4716	0.001300804	4706	10	100%
1966	4510	0.001297597	4492	18	99%
1967	4575	0.001347611	4561	14	99%
1968	4726	0.001398882	4715	11	100%
1969	5183	0.001491372	5167	16	99%
1970	5459	0.00151365	5443	16	99%
1971	5152	0.00150101	5122	30	99%
1972	4523	0.001439074	4511	12	99%
1973	4431	0.001468732	4419	12	99%
1974	4549	0.001496382	4532	17	99%
1975	4870	0.001612906	4852	18	99%
1976	5069	0.001670567	5053	16	99%
1977	6050	0.001904616	6030	20	99%
1978	6651	0.002095549	6625	26	99%
1979	7501	0.002254584	7465	36	99%
1980	8048	0.002336474	8018	30	99%
1981	8464	0.002446685	8433	31	99%
1982	9225	0.002629732	9180	45	99%
1983	9716	0.002805385	9683	33	99%
1984	10204	0.002924826	10156	48	99%
1985	10168	0.002848889	10129	39	99%
1986	10614	0.00298391	10570	44	99%
1987	10482	0.002907133	10438	44	99%
1988	11196	0.003030005	11154	42	99%
1989	11509	0.002993668	11415	94	98%
1990	11659	0.002949795	11627	32	99%
1991	11515	0.002956153	11495	20	100%
1992	11169	0.00290763	11149	20	100%
1993	10525	0.00279157	10506	19	100%
1994	9605	0.002583619	9586	19	100%
1995	9000	0.002457569	8987	13	100%
1996	8892	0.002438038	8878	14	100%
1997	8528	0.002352066	8517	11	100%
1998	8218	0.002234241	8205	13	100%
1999	7942	0.00215005	7935	7	100%
2000	8122	0.002148732	8109	13	100%
2001	7894	0.002108784	7880	14	100%
2002	7224	0.001932434	7212	12	100%
2003	7136	0.001876749	7126	10	100%
2004	6774	0.00177287	6742	32	99%
2005	6406	0.001666127	6392	14	100%
2006	6301	0.001592694	6295	6	100%
2007	5825	0.001457094	5818	7	100%
2008	5356	0.001362619	5350	6	100%
2009	4436	0.001161203	4431	5	100%
2010	3869	0.001046881	3869		100%
2011	4194	0.001146593	4189	5	100%
2012	3953	0.001080832	3953		100%
2013	3723	0.001021212	3723		100%
2014	3696	0.0009972	3689	7	100%
2015	3463	0.000935715	3454	9	99%
2016	3275	0.000892687	3275		100%
2017	2861	0.000800012	2861		100%
2018	2676	0.000761114	2676		100%
2019	2450	0.000705862	2450		100%
2020	1991	0.000596005	1991		100%
2021	1819	0.000536903	1819		100%
2022	1738	0.000513725	1738		100%
2023	1703	0.000514316	1703		100%
2024	1740	0.000522758	1740		100%

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