Girl
Katherine
The name Katherine carries the meaning "Pure", with roots in Greek. It has faded some since the 1980s without dropping off entirely. These days, it is one of the most familiar names around. The registry counts around 620,493 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
GreekPure
CopticLinked by some scholars to purity
Births by decade
1900s
12,139
1910s
36,965
1920s
42,909
1930s
25,329
1940s
40,041
1950s
66,994
1960s
50,788
1970s
54,262
1980s
99,617
1990s
97,033
2000s
65,453
2010s
28,963
Peaked in the 1980s · 620,493 total U.S. births since 1900