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Cathleen
OriginVariation of Kathleen, English and Irish
Meaning"pure"
GenderGirl
US Rank#975
Top 1000
NB Rank#7353
On Nameberry
About Cathleen
Variation of Catherine
Popularity & trends
US popularity — history
US rank, lower is more popular · SSA data 2014–2025
Actual · SSA
20142025
18802025
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
Famous Cathleens
- Cathleen Sabine Mann
Marchioness of Queensberry, British portrait painter and costume designer
- Cathleen Falsani
American journalist
- Cathleen Rund
German Olympic swimmer
- Cathleen Schine
American novelist
- Cathleen Cordell
American actress
- Kathleen Mary "Cathleen" Nesbitt
British actress
- Mary Cathleen Collins
birth name of Bo Derek, American actress
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Irish,Canadian mathematician
- Cathleen Hudson
daughter of John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans
- Cathleen Davitt Bell
American novelist
- Margo Cathleen Harshman
American actress
Cathleen in pop culture
- "Cathleen ni Houlihan" (1902)
W.B. Yeats's play in which Kathleen ni Houlihan (a personification of Ireland as a woman, as Britannia is of Great Britain) appears as a mysterious wandering old woman who inspired the uprising of the United Irishmen in 1798.
- Cathleen Calvert
character in "Gone With the Wind"
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