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Girl's name · #729 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Kathryn holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#729 in 2025). About 455,000 girls have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 34 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Kathryn ranks in other countries and regions.
#1,315 in Canada (2025) · #2,788 in England & Wales (2025) · #3,453 in Ecuador (2025) · #14,641 in Italy (2024) · #337 in N. Ireland (2024) · #790 in Scotland (2024) · #856 in Ireland (2023) · #1,548 in Austria (2020) · #701 in Poland (2019) · #339 in New Zealand (2009) · #95 in Australia (NSW) (1993) · #81 in Australia (QLD) (1992) and 1 more.
Among 878 notable people named Kathryn:
Scientists & scholars appear 1.82× more often than among typical names — e.g. Kathryn C. Thornton, American scientist and astronaut (born 1952).
Together with its spelling variants Katherine (#186) and Catherine (#314), Kathryn would rank around #82 with about 3,000 births last year — the newborns split about 55/32/13 across Katherine, Catherine, and Kathryn.
Similar names: Katrina · Ellen · Kathleen · Nancy · Katie · Cynthia
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