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Female Name
Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant spelling of Katrine (see also -thrine) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Katrina
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Cathrine
|
Genitive: |
Cathrines
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Cathrine
|
Genitive: |
Cathrinen
|
Partitive: |
Cathrinea
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Cathrine
|
Genitive: |
Cathrines
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Cathrine
|
Genitive: |
Cathrines
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Denmark: appears in the baptism registers of Skast herred (Næsbjerg, Øse, Fåborg, Grimstrup, Årre) in the period 1706-1710 [6]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 1399 people were named Cathrine (percentage of first or only given name: 29 %) [8]
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[9] |
|
1587 |
2845 |
1587 |
2845 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[10] |
|
2865 |
n.a. |
2865 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
133 |
n.a. |
133 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[12] |
|
0 |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
6571 |
n.a. |
6571 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
0 |
1 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [9][10][13][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables