Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1892–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
The high point was 1989: 277 births recorded as Katherin. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1892. As of 2025 the name sits at #4,172, with 34 births that year.
Compared with 2015, births are down 31%. Year on year the rank improved by 122.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Katherin?
About 3,200 people named Katherin are alive in the United States today. That is out of 3,630 recorded births since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Katherin?
The typical living Katherin is 29 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 2000s. By the site’s era rules that makes Katherin a late 20th-century name.
Your Katherin
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Katherin is most common
The name is concentrated in Texas, at 2.0× the national rate.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Katherin is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.