Katrine
Feminine
Katrine is two things at once: a Scandinavian form of one of Europe's most-used women's names, and a Scottish loch whose own name has nothing to do with it. Both were in circulation when the name reaches the American record.
How old is the name Katrine?
Katrine first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Katrine alive today was born around 1978, making them about 47 years old. About 800 people named Katrine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Katrine most popular?
Katrine peaked in 1915, reaching #2526 nationally. See the whole 1915 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aikaterine to Katrine
The story of Katrine
The loch has an afterlife nobody expects. Glasgow in the nineteenth century was a city with cholera and no clean water, and the solution built for it was an aqueduct running some thirty miles from Loch Katrine through hills and under rivers, entirely by gravity, delivering water to the city without a single pump. It opened in the eighteen-fifties, it has been extended rather than replaced, and it still supplies the city. Meanwhile the name's other half, the Scandinavian Katrine, arrived with Danish and Norwegian families and is simply what Katherine is called there. Two unrelated words, one spelling, and an American record that cannot tell which household meant which.
Meaningnot established
Not established
As a form of Katherine, the name inherits a meaning nobody has established — the Greek original has never been explained and the familiar gloss of pure was attached to it centuries later. As a loch name it is a separate Gaelic word with its own disputed derivation. The two are unrelated and the spelling does not choose between them.
How the name formed
- Aikaterine
- Katrine
Related forms: Katrine · Katrine · Katrin
Pronouncing Katrine
kuh-TREEN
Two syllables with the stress at the back. Scandinavian speakers say kah-TREE-nuh, with a third syllable, and the loch is KAT-rin.
Nicknames for Katrine
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 198127 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2526reached in 1915
- Change vs 2014
- +20.0%6 in 2017, 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.
Katrine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Katrine in Danish — same name
- Katrine in Norwegian — same name
- Katrin in German — same name
Katrines among us
people named Katrine 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
Katrine 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
- It is a real form of a name understood everywhere, and a rare one in America.
- The short forms are strong and sound nothing like each other.
- The spelling is simple and read correctly on sight.
- Katrina and Catherine are both close and hers will be written as one of them.
- The Scandinavian pronunciation has three syllables and the American has two.
- The loch and the name are unrelated, whatever the resemblance suggests.
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Frequently asked
- How many Katrines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Katrine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Katrine in 2025?
- Katrine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Katrine with classmates?
- Katrine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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