Kathleen

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: English

Meaning

Kathleen is a female given name, used in English- and Irish-language communities. Sometimes spelled Cathleen, it is an Anglicized form of Caitlรญn, the Irish form of Cateline, which was the Old French form of Catherine.

From Wikipedia

Kathleen first appears in the data in 1941 and has been recorded in 64 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1968 with 14 babies (rank #626 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Kathleen

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Kathleen yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

357
Total babies (all years)
64
Years in the data
14
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19411#70
19421#172
19473#6
19502#27
19532#989
19542#999
19556#758
19563#929
19573#943
19589#682
19594#915
19604#944
19616#834
19628#754
19639#726
19649#741
19656#855
19668#780
19679#757
196814#626
19694#1,057
19706#899
19718#805
197210#708
19739#735
19749#707
19759#716
19769#728
19773#1,107
19783#1,136
19794#1,061
19804#1,080
19815#958
19825#987
19834#1,093
19844#1,114
19856#949
19865#1,037
19878#845
19884#1,154
19895#1,063
19907#968
19917#948
199210#815
19938#915
199411#768
19955#1,100
19965#1,080
19975#1,094
19984#1,206
19994#1,220
20005#1,099
20015#1,100
20029#841
20035#1,069
20044#1,182
20057#906
20064#1,152
20074#1,145
20085#1,011
20095#1,002
20102#1,301
20112#1,290
20131#1,418