Catherine: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Catherine is catalogued in Wikidata as a French last name.

How many people are named Catherine?

350 Americans were listed as Catherine in the 2010 census. INSEE counts 5,942 people born in France with the Catherine surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1951–1960. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

What does Catherine mean?

Where a surname's origin is uncertain, as with Catherine, the best clues come from your own ancestors' parish and civil records.

Does every Catherine family have a crest?

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Catherine, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Get the complete Catherine report, with a museum-style coat of arms.