Marycatherine
Feminine
In parts of Catholic Europe almost every girl was baptized Mary. When a name reaches saturation it stops distinguishing anybody, and the second name has to do all the work, which is how Mary turned from a name into something closer to a prefix.
How old is the name Marycatherine?
Marycatherine first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Marycatherine alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 900 people named Marycatherine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marycatherine most popular?
Marycatherine peaked in 1914, reaching #2876 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 6,581 places below that high. See the whole 1914 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Miryam to Marycatherine
The story of Marycatherine
Marian saturation was real and it is measurable. In nineteenth-century Ireland, Poland, Bavaria and Quebec, Mary or its local form was given to a very large share of all girls, and in some parish registers to a majority. A name held by half the women in a village cannot identify anyone, so the second name became the operative one and Mary became a devotional prefix carried before it. French Canada formalized this: boys were registered Joseph and girls Marie, followed by the name actually used. Irish families produced Mary Catherine, Mary Margaret, Mary Frances and Mary Ellen, all spoken as units. The American record then collapses the space, because the Social Security application has one field for a first name, and the two words arrive as one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Mary is Hebrew Miryam, whose meaning is genuinely unknown; proposals include bitterness, beloved and an Egyptian origin, none demonstrated. Catherine is equally unresolved, with derivations from Greek katharos, pure, generally regarded as a later folk explanation that also produced the th in the spelling. The compound records the pair as a single registered name. The peak is 1914.
How the name formed
- Miryam
- Maria
- Mary
- Marycatherine
Related forms: Maire Caitriona · Marie-Catherine
Pronouncing Marycatherine
MAIR-ee-KATH-rin
Four or five syllables with two stresses, one on each element. Written as one word it looks longer than it sounds, since Catherine is usually said in two syllables.
Nicknames for Marycatherine
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
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 199732 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2876reached in 1914
- Change vs 2024
- −9.1%10 in 2025, from 11
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.
Marycatherine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maire Caitriona in Irish — related form
- Marie-Catherine in French — same name
Marycatherines among us
people named Marycatherine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Marycatherine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Marycatherine
- #9457
- Marycatherine on the 2025 chart
- #932
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Marycatherine went to 10 girls in 2025, but Marykatherine is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 28, which makes it the 932nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,525 places above the chart.
- Marykatherine18
- Marycatherine10
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Marycatherine itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Marycatherine sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Marycatherine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marycatherine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are complete names in their own right.
- Several short forms are available.
- It carries an unmistakable devotional tradition.
- Thirteen letters as a single word will be split by many systems.
- It reads as two names run together.
- The 1914 peak places it over a century ago.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marycatherines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Marycatherine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Marycatherine?
- Marycatherine is one of 2 recorded spellings. Marykatherine is the more common one — 18 births in 2025 against 10 for Marycatherine.
- How popular is the name Marycatherine in 2025?
- Marycatherine ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marycatherine?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Marycatherine — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marycatherine with classmates?
- Marycatherine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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