Katherine

  • Girl
  • 9 letters
English Pure. Used since third century A. D. Early Latin forms Katerina and Caterina became Katharine and Catherine. French Cateline and English Catlyn came into wider use during medieval period when variants multiplied.
Greek Form of the Greek Catherine meaning pure.
Irish Pure. Clear. From the Gaelic form Caitlin.
Latin Pure, clear. Form of the Latin 'Katharina', from the Greek Aikaterina'. It was borne by a number of saints, including St Catherine of Alexandria, a 4th century martyr who suffered torture on a spiked wheel.
Literary A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry V, where it belongs to daughter to Charles and Isabel, King and Queen of France.

Katherine is a girl’s name of English, Greek, Irish, Latin and Literary origin. Meaning in English: Pure. Used since third century A. D. Early Latin forms Katerina and Caterina became Katharine and Catherine. French Cateline and English Catlyn came into wider use during medieval period when variants multiplied. Meaning in Greek: Form of the Greek Catherine meaning pure. Meaning in Irish: Pure. Clear. From the Gaelic form Caitlin. Meaning in Latin: Pure, clear. Form of the Latin ‘Katharina’, from the Greek Aikaterina’. It was borne by a number of saints, including St Catherine of Alexandria, a 4th century martyr who suffered torture on a spiked wheel. A literary name from Shakespeare’s King Henry V, where it belongs to daughter to Charles and Isabel, King and Queen of France. The name has 9 letters.

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Katharine

Girl

Greek Latin Literary

Pure. Form of the Latin 'Katharina', from the Greek Aikaterina'. American actress Katharine Hepburn was born in 1909. A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry the Eighth, where it belongs to queen Katharine, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced. 'Love's Labours Lost' A lady attending on the Princess of France.

Katherina

Girl

English Russian Literary

Pure. A literary name from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, where it belongs to the shrew, and daughter to Baptista.

Kathleen

Unisex

English Greek French Irish Latin

Pure. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin Katharina, from the Greek Aikaterina. Pure. Clear. Innocent. From the Gaelic form Caitlin. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin 'Katharina', from the Greek Aikaterina'. It was borne by a number of saints, including St Catherine of Alexandria, a 4th century martyr who suffered torture on a spiked wheel.

Kathleena

Girl

Irish

Variant of Caitlin derived from Katherine. Pure.

Kathlene

Girl

Irish

Variant of Caitlin derived from Katherine. Pure.