Cathrine

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland 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

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Cathrine
Genitive: Cathrines
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Cathrine
Genitive: Cathrinen
Partitive: Cathrinea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Cathrine
Genitive: Cathrines
Sweden - 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

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[9]
1587 2845 1587 2845 0 0
Denmark Denmark[10]
2865
n.a.
2865
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
133
n.a.
133 0 0
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
6571
n.a.
6571
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland 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

Name statistics for Cathrine (f) Sources: [9][10][13][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Cathrine (f) Sources: [15]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Cathrine (f)


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. details see Name Statistic tables