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Kathleen

A favorite among Irish immigrant families in the late 1800s and early 1900s, as Irish Americans became one of the largest immigrant groups in the U.S. It had its heyday in the 1950s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is a name nearly everyone knows in the registry.

GreekPure
GreekIrish form of Katherine
Also spelled: Katherine, Catherine, Kathryn
Births by decade
1900s
3,923
1910s
16,606
1920s
33,678
1930s
34,709
1940s
153,340
1950s
224,710
1960s
121,256
1970s
45,025
1980s
39,583
1990s
24,866
2000s
10,059
2010s
3,211
Peaked in the 1950s · 710,966 total U.S. births since 1900