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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
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
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Catherine
|
Genitive: |
Catherines
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Catherine
|
Genitive: |
Catherinen
|
Partitive: |
Catherinea
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Catherine
|
Genitive: |
Catherines
|
- 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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[10] |
|
1036 |
2027 |
1036 |
2027 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
885 |
n.a. |
885 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[12] |
|
332 |
n.a. |
332 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Iceland[13] |
|
24 |
35 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
540 |
n.a. |
540 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ Jean-Maurice Barbé: Tous les prénoms français et régionaux (2004)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/