This page shows the Kathleen (girls) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Kathleen was recorded as a first name for girls in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Kathleen's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for girls that year.

The record for Kathleen for girls sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Kathleen appears in 45 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 2,046 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1974, when the table records 143 babies given the name, at rank 62 among all first names for girls that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Kathleen for girls are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among girls' first names
20254632
20194650
20176501
20166502
20145603
20133816
20124665
20114674
20109389
20094668
20085572
20077437
20066468
200512282
200413258
200317222
200218209
200116229
200022193
199930145
199820195
199729157
199641119
199552102
199446119
199340135
19929575
199151117
199069100
198963108
198871101
19877992
19867597
198575101
19848886
19836895
19828884
19818099
19807896
197910673
19787891
197711269
19769676
197510870
197414362

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