Käthe
Meaning
“German short form of Katharina, of unknown root, later linked to purity; famously borne by Kathe Kollwitz, whose prints of grief and war remain unbearably raw.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Käthe has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
122 people · the #35,848 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 35
Among people named Käthe living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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