Catherine

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English and French form of Katharina (see also -rine) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See Katerina

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Catherine
Genitive: Catherines
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Catherine
Genitive: Catherinen
Partitive: Catherinea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Catherine
Genitive: Catherines
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Catherine
Genitive: Catherines

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 480 people were named Catherine (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) [9]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[10]
1036 2027 1036 2027 0 0
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
885
n.a.
885 0 0
Denmark Denmark[12]
332
n.a.
332
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
24 35
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
540
n.a.
540
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Catherine.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  4. Jean-Maurice Barbé: Tous les prénoms français et régionaux (2004)
  5. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/