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The first name 
Katrin

Katrin is a first name for girls.

Katrin – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Katrin in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Katrin in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Katrin by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Katrin ranks at #10,113. That means there are 10,112 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Katrin.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Katrin

Katrin has 6 letters 
and begins with a K

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 six letters, the name Katrin is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.

Other names with 
K, a, t, r, i and n

If you take all the letters in the name Katrin – K, a, t, r, i and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Kirtan or Trinka.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Katrin

If your name is Katrin 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...

This is how you spell the name Katrin

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Katrin, you can simply say:

Koala

Apple

Tiger

Rocket

Igloo

Nut

This is how the name Katrin is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Katrin in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Katrin

Katrin

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Katrin

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Katrin is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
A
T
R
I
N

Have you ever waved the name Katrin

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.

K
A
T
R
I
N

Beeping like crazy...

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. Katrin sounds like this: