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Cathern

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Cathern is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 828th, in 1882.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
193029 births
Best rank
#828in 1882
Since 1882
1,080people given the name
Babies named Cathern, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,080 girls have been named Cathern in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 29 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 29 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Cathern
1880s29
1890s15
1900s30
1910s162
1920s229
1930s165
1940s144
1950s161
1960s74
1970s41
1980s30

In 1930, its biggest year

Cathern was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.

Names that rose and fell with Cathern

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.