Catrice
Feminine
The pool of money in the middle of a card table is the kitty, and the likeliest explanation is that it comes from a woman's name. Kitty was the everyday form of Catherine for three centuries, and a kitty was originally the box or purse the stakes went into — but the dictionaries hedge, because nobody can prove it.
How old is the name Catrice?
Catrice first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Catrice alive today was born around 1979, making them about 46 years old. About 1,000 people named Catrice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Catrice most popular?
Catrice peaked in 1972, reaching #1655 nationally. See the whole 1972 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Catherine gives the everyday form Kitty to Catrice
The story of Catrice
The kitty is one of a small set of English words that appear to come from personal names and cannot be proved to. A jack is a mechanical device and a jack is also a man; a jenny is a machine and a woman's name; a davy lamp and a jemmy and a betty are all tools named, apparently, after people. Every one of them is marked in the dictionaries as probably from the personal name, and every one of them has an alternative explanation somebody prefers. It is the standard condition of a word that started in speech rather than in writing.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name looks like a blend of two that were both fashionable when it appeared — one built on Catherine and one on Patrice — and blends of that kind were being made freely in the 1960s. Neither half can be shown. What is documented is the family: the ending appears on a dozen American women's names of the period, most of which were assembled rather than inherited.
How the name formed
- Catherine gives the everyday form Kitty
- kitty becomes the word for a pool of stakes
- American families build new names on a shared ending
- Catrice appears in the record in the middle 1960s
- peaks in the early 1970s
Related forms: Catrice · Patrice
Pronouncing Catrice
kuh-TREES
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The c before an e says s, which is why the ending works.
Nicknames for Catrice
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1965
- Most girls named
- 197155 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1655reached in 1972
- Change vs 2006
- +20.0%6 in 2007, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Catrice in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Catrice in English — same name
- Patrice in French — related form
Catrices among us
people named Catrice are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Catrice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Cat is available and is one of the most usable short forms going.
- It is read correctly at sight and holds no surprises.
- It is genuinely uncommon while sounding entirely familiar.
- It will be heard as Patrice and Catrina by people meeting it once.
- There is no meaning to give her and no documented parent.
- It is closely dated to the middle decades of the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Catrices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Catrice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Catrice in 2025?
- Catrice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Catrice with classmates?
- Catrice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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