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Cathleen

OriginVariation of Kathleen, English and Irish
Meaning"pure"
GenderBoy & girl
US rank · girls#9581

2025 SSA

US rank · boysUnranked

Below 5 births

About Cathleen

Variant of Kathleen

Cathleen is also given to boys.

Pronounced KATH-leen.

As of October 2026, Cathleen ranked #9581 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #251 in 1956.

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Famous Cathleens

  • Cathleen Sabine MannGirl

    Marchioness of Queensberry, British portrait painter and costume designer

  • Cathleen FalsaniGirl

    American journalist

  • Cathleen RundGirl

    German Olympic swimmer

  • Cathleen SchineGirl

    American novelist

  • Cathleen CordellGirl

    American actress

  • Kathleen Mary "Cathleen" NesbittGirl

    British actress

  • Mary Cathleen CollinsGirl

    birth name of Bo Derek, American actress

  • Cathleen Synge MorawetzGirl

    Irish,Canadian mathematician

  • Cathleen HudsonGirl

    daughter of John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans

  • Cathleen Davitt BellGirl

    American novelist

  • Margo Cathleen HarshmanGirl

    American actress

Cathleen in pop culture

  • "Cathleen ni Houlihan" (1902)Girl

    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 CalvertGirl

    character in "Gone With the Wind"

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