Kathryn is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Kathryn isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Kathryn ranks 364. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Kathryn. In total, there are currently 433,520 people – children, adults and seniors – named Kathryn living in the United States, which is approximately 0.13 % of the entire population.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Kathryn is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Kathryn for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Kathryn is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Kathryn is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 45 Kathryn easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1951.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kathryn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Kathryn is one of them. However, Kathryn is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Minnesota seem to particularly fancy this name – the 13,073 women called Kathryn who live here are 0,465% of all female residents and push their name up to #40, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Minnesota.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Kathryn has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kathryn and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kathryn, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kathryn sounds like this:
