Cathleen

English, Irish

"pure"

Cathleen Origin and Meaning

The name Cathleen is a girl's name meaning "pure".

Variant of Kathleen

Cathleen Rank in US Top 1000

# 975 in the US

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Famous People Named Cathleen

• 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

The name 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"