Feminine dossier · first seen 1882

Cathern

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Cathern
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1930

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1882Peak 19302024

Peak year

1930

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,080

Cathern has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1930, when 29 girls were named Cathern.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,080 Americans have been named Cathern and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1882.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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