Cathrine

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cathrine: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cathrine: Recorded since 1951, it reached #21 in 1978, and it stood at #478 in 2020.

3registrars recorded it
67times a registrar ranked it
70years from first to last
#21highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for
10names it appears alongside

What stands out in Cathrine's record

Held a top-100 place for 34 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 61 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2010

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1998	#3848
1999	#3225
2010	#3533

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 61 of the 70 years from 1951 to 2020.

In 2010: #584 among girls in Norway, #3533 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1951–2020 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1951
First recorded at #360 among girls in Norway in 1951 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1951–2020
Highest recorded position: #21 among girls in Norway, in 1978 (recorded 1951–2020).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #478 among girls in Norway, in 2020.
Norway · Girls

Cathrine appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 61 years beginning in 1951, and has registered 6,652 births with the name.

Cathrine across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cathrine's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#360 (1951)	#21 (1978)	#478 (2020)	61 of 70	6,652 (1951–2020)	257 (1988)
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#2096 (1996)	#3533 (2010)	4 of 15	20 (1996–2010)	7 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#447 (1970)	#447 (1970)	#523 (1979)	2 of 10	6 (1970–1979)	3 (1970)

Cathrine by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cathrine in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	41	5 of 10	8
1960s	851	10 of 10	85
1970s	2,110	10 of 10	211
1980sbusiest	2,134	10 of 10	213
1990s	1,211	10 of 10	121
2000s	271	10 of 10	27
2010s	30	5 of 10	6
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 213 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1968 and 1969, when recorded births rose by 84, from 110 to 194.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Cathrine appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1951 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #21 in Norway in 1978.

Cathrine's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#478	4	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#475	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#565	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#486	6	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#390	10	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#584	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#383	11	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#273	19	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#262	19	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#245	20	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#285	16	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#212	25	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#186	30	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#145	40	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#130	48	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#148	43	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#128	51	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#121	58	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#105	71	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#96	90	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#60	126	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#61	134	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#59	134	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#53	158	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#47	180	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#39	209	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#30	240	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#25	257	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#28	233	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#25	240	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#32	201	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#38	175	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#32	190	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#32	193	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#35	180	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#26	225	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#31	201	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#21	241	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#25	230	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#36	188	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#32	204	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#33	218	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#32	224	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#36	230	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#48	195	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#46	179	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#48	194	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#75	110	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#74	106	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#71	118	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#71	111	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#89	77	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#86	73	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#155	27	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#192	21	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#235	14	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#243	14	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#313	9	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#337	7	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#361	6	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#360	5	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#447	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1951 and 2020, ranked in 61 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #21, first reached in 1978.

It held a top-100 place in 34 years, 34 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 257 births, registered in Norway in 1988.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1970, and 45 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Cathrin · #229, 31y
Cathrina · #293, 19y
Cathriona · #180, 36y
Cathryn · #344, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Brigid · #26, 58y
Eimear · #26, 62y
Siobhán · #15, 62y
Dermot · #30, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Carmel · #21, 67y
Denis · #21, 66y
Rhonda · #21, 37y
Brent · #22, 63y

Comparisons involving Cathrine

Existing comparison pages where Cathrine and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Cathrine in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Cathrine vs Julia
Over 55 shared years in Norway · Girls, Julia rose about as far as Cathrine fell — from #235 and #373 in 1960 to #478 and #62 in 2020.
Cathrine · Julia · 55 shared years, 1960–2020 · Mirrored each other
See the 2020 Norway ranking
Sarah vs Cathrine
Over 55 shared years in Norway · Girls, Sarah rose about as far as Cathrine fell — from #490 and #235 in 1960 to #97 and #478 in 2020.
Sarah · Cathrine · 55 shared years, 1960–2020 · Mirrored each other
See the 2020 Norway ranking
Karoline vs Cathrine
Over 53 shared years in Norway · Girls, Karoline rose about as far as Cathrine fell — from #442 and #235 in 1960 to #144 and #478 in 2020.
Karoline · Cathrine · 53 shared years, 1960–2020 · Mirrored each other
See the 2020 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Cathrine and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Vilde vs Cathrine
In Norway · Girls, Vilde moved into the top 50 at #29 in 1992 as Cathrine fell out of it to #53, having been #47 the year before.
Vilde · Cathrine · 42 shared years, 1965–2020 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1992 Norway ranking
Emilie vs Cathrine
In Norway · Girls, Emilie moved into the top 50 at #34 in 1992 as Cathrine fell out of it to #53, having been #47 the year before.
Emilie · Cathrine · 39 shared years, 1958–2020 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1992 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Cathrine measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Cathrine at its highest position.

Maja vs Cathrine
Over 51 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maja rose about as far as Cathrine fell — from #444 and #235 in 1960 to #19 and #478 in 2020.
Maja · Cathrine · 51 shared years, 1960–2020 · Mirrored each other
See the 2020 Norway ranking
Anette vs Cathrine
Anette and Cathrine changed places 17 times in Norway · Girls between 1952 and 2014, ending at #545 and #475.
Anette · Cathrine · 59 shared years, 1952–2014 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2014 Norway ranking
Trine vs Cathrine
Trine and Cathrine changed places 17 times in Norway · Girls between 1951 and 2014, ending at #578 and #475.
Trine · Cathrine · 59 shared years, 1951–2014 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2014 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Cathrine was ranked #21 in Norway · Girls in 1978. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cathrine and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cathrine without appearing here.

Cathrine moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 1960 they stood at #235 and #231 in Norway · Girls; by 1961 that had become #192 and #368.
Jeanette Compare
In 2010 they stood at #584 and #560 in Norway · Girls; by 2011 that had become #390 and #541.
Trine Compare
In 2013 they stood at #565 and #512 in Norway · Girls; by 2014 that had become #475 and #578.
Kate Compare
In 2013 they stood at #565 and #539 in Norway · Girls; by 2014 that had become #475 and #561.

Moved ahead of Cathrine

Ellie Compare
In 2009 they stood at #383 and #482 in Norway · Girls; by 2010 that had become #584 and #307.
Zoe Compare
In 2012 they stood at #486 and #508 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #565 and #328.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #390 and #499 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #486 and #272.
Amy Compare
In 2011 they stood at #390 and #436 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #486 and #300.

Moved the opposite way to Cathrine

Sara Compare
Between 1957 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Cathrine went from #337 to #478 while Sara went from #358 to #22.
Selma Compare
Between 1957 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Cathrine went from #337 to #478 while Selma went from #433 to #9.
Sofie Compare
Between 1957 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Cathrine went from #337 to #478 while Sofie went from #333 to #7.
Emilie Compare
Between 1958 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Cathrine went from #313 to #478 while Emilie went from #383 to #5.

Moved the same way as Cathrine

Jane Compare
Between 1951 and 2013 in Norway · Girls, Cathrine went from #360 to #565 and Jane from #179 to #576.
Judith Compare
Between 1951 and 2013 in Norway · Girls, Cathrine went from #360 to #565 and Judith from #145 to #537.
Monica Compare
Between 1951 and 2013 in Norway · Girls, Cathrine went from #360 to #565 and Monica from #218 to #545.
Patricia Compare
Between 1951 and 2013 in Norway · Girls, Cathrine went from #360 to #565 and Patricia from #327 to #550.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1951 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #21 in Norway in 1978. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Cathrine

Cathrine at a glance

What stands out in Cathrine's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cathrine across 3 official records

Cathrine by decade in Norway · Girls

Cathrine appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Comparisons involving Cathrine

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Cathrine

Cathrine and the names beside it

Cathrine moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cathrine

Moved the opposite way to Cathrine

Moved the same way as Cathrine

Cathrine at a glance

What stands out in Cathrine's record

Cathrine across 3 official records

Cathrine by decade in Norway · Girls

Cathrine appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Comparisons involving Cathrine

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Cathrine

Cathrine and the names beside it

Cathrine moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cathrine

Moved the opposite way to Cathrine

Moved the same way as Cathrine