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Katherine

OriginGreek
Meaning"pure"
GenderGirl
US Rank#186

Top 1000

NB Rank#243

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Variation of Caterina

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Famous Katherines

  • Katherine Swynford

    Duchess of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt

  • Katherine

    Princess of Greece and Denmark, daughter of Constantine I

  • Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric

    American newscaster

  • Katherine Mansfield

    New Zealand fiction writer

  • Katherine Grace "Kat" McNamara

    American actress

  • Katherine Anne Porter (born Callie Russell Porter)

    American novelist

  • Katherine "Kate" Chopin

    American novelist

  • Katherine Evelyn Anita "Katie" Cassidy

    American actress

  • Katherine Marie Heigl

    American actress

  • Katherine Jenkins

    Welsh operatic mezzo,soprano

  • Katherine Sian Moennig

    American actress

  • Katherine Elizabeth Webb

    American model

  • Katherine Murray "Kate" Millett

    American feminist author

  • Katherine Kiernan Maria "Kate" Mulgrew

    American actress

  • Katherine Emily "Kate" Hewlett

    Canadian actress

  • Katherine Rundell

    British author

  • Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Upton

    American model

  • Katherine Ryan

    Canadian,British comedienne

  • Katherine Frances "Katy" Brand

    English actress

  • Katherine Marlea Clark

    U.S. Congresswoman from Massachusetts

  • Katherine Harris

    U.S. Congresswoman from Florida

  • Katherine Esau

    German,American botanist

  • Katherine Mary Dunham

    American dancer

  • Katherine Jane Parkinson

    English actress

  • Katherine "Kate" Ritchie

    Australian actress

  • Katherine Clairy Batis

    Crown Princess of Yugoslavia as wife of Crown Prince Alexander

  • Katherine Tudor

    Princess of England, daughter of King Henry VII

  • Katherine Kelly

    English Actress

  • Katherine "Katie" Beth Nolan

    American sports personality and television host

  • Katherine Schwarzenegger

    daughter of journalist Maria Shriver and actor/politician Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • Katherine Langford

    Australian actress

  • Katherine Ellen "Kath" Soucie

    American actress

  • Katherine Johnson

    African,American NASA computer, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

  • Katherine Swati Kaling (b. 2017)

    daughter of actress/writer Mindy Kaling

  • Katherine Bowes

    Lyon, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II

  • Katherine Uchida

    Canadian rhythmic gymnast

  • Katherine Ann Cimorelli

    Bass guitarist/singer in the band Cimorelli

  • Katherine "Kat" Reynolds

    American soccer player

  • Katherine Rose "Kat" Gibson

    Contestant on season 4 of Love Island USA

Katherine in pop culture

  • Katherine "Kate" Houghton Beckett

    main character on TV's "Castle"

  • Katherine "Kitty" Freemont

    character in Leon Uris' "Exodus"

  • Katerina Petrova aka Katherine Pierce

    character on TV's 'The Vampire Diaries'

  • Katherine Solomon

    character in 'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown

  • Katherine "Kitty" Forman

    character on TV's "That 70s show"

  • Katherine Mayfair

    character on TV's 'Desperate Housewives'

  • Katherine "Kitty" Anne Pryde

    also known as Shadowcat, character in Marvel Universe

  • Katherine "Kat" Hillard

    second Pink Ranger in the Power Rangers series

  • Katherine Glendenning

    character on TV's 'The Paradise'

  • Katherine "Kate" Kavanagh

    minor character in '50 Shades of Grey" series

  • Katherine

    daughter in Shakespeare's "Henry V"

  • Katherine "Kate"

    character in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew"

  • Katherine 'Kate' Austen

    character on TV's "Lost"

  • "An Abundance of Katherines

    " novel by John Green

  • Katherine "Kay" Corleone

    character in "The Godfather" series

  • Katherine "Kate

    " character in 'Mortal Engines' by Philip Reeve

  • "Katherine

    " 1975 movie and main character

  • Katherine Plumber

    character in Disney's Newsies

  • Katherine "kissing Kate" Barlow

    character in Louis Sachar's "Holes"

  • Katherine "Katie" Abbott Newman

    daughter of Victoria Newman & Billy Abbott on "The Young and the Restless"

  • Katherine "Kate" Kane aka Batwoman

    DC Comics superhero.

  • Katherine "Kate" Sanders

    character in TV series "Lizzie McGuire"

  • Katherine Warren

    character in the "Resident Evil" video game series

  • Katherine Fuller

    theater kid in "From Dusk Till Dawn"

  • Katherine "Kate" Olivia Harker

    main character in Victoria Schwab's Monsters of Verity duology

  • Katherine "Kitty" Song Covey

    main character in TV series "XO, Kitty" and supporting character in the movie trilogy "To All the Boys..."

  • "Robin Hood and Queen Katherine"

    A ballad in the 19th century collection "The Child Ballads"

Variations & nicknames

  • CatherineEnglish, French
  • CatarinaPortuguese, Galician, Spanish, Italian
  • CaterinaItalian, Catalan, Romanian
  • CatalinaSpanish, Romanian (Cătălina)
  • KaterinaGreek, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Czech, Russian
  • KatarinaScandinavian, Serbian, Slovenian, Croatian, German, Slovak
  • CaitríonaIrish
  • KaterynaUkrainian
  • KatrineScandinavian, German, French
  • KatarzynaPolish
  • KasiaPolish nickname for Katarzyna
  • KätheGerman
  • KathrinGerman, Estonian, Swedish

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