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Cathrine

As a girl's name, Cathrine is understood to mean "pure". It had its heyday in the 1950s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. 1956 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.

EtymologyVariant of Catherine
EtymologyMeaning "pure"
Births by decade
1900s
240
1910s
639
1920s
840
1930s
518
1940s
597
1950s
1,413
1960s
1,154
1970s
632
1980s
507
1990s
431
2000s
293
2010s
70
Peaked in the 1950s · 7,334 total U.S. births since 1900