Katherine: Meaning of cat name Katherine

Pronunciation: [Ka-the-rine]

Gender of Katherine: Female

Meaning of Katherine: 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.

Origin of Katherine: Greek

It is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Katherine is "pure". Used by Katharine Hepburn and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Variant Forms:

Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Caitlin	pure	Female	Irish
Cari	Flows Like Water	Unisex	Turkish
Cassie	Abbreviation of Cassandra. Unheeded prophetess. In Homer's The Iliad Cassandra's prediction of the fall of Troy was unheeded.	Female	English
Cat	pure	Female	English
Cat	pure	Female	English
Catalina	pure	Female	Spanish
Catarina	Blessed, Pure, Holy	Unisex	Italian
Caterina	Greek, pure	Female	Italian
Catherine	pure	Female	Greek
Cathy	Form of the Greek Catherine meaning pure.	Female	English
Catrina	Blessed, Pure, Holy	Unisex	Irish
Caty		Unisex	Hebrew
Ekaterina	Blessed, Pure, Holy	Female	Slavic
Kait	Blessed, Pure, Holy	Unisex	English
Karen	pure	Female	Danish
Kari	curly hair	Male	Norse
Karin	Pure	Unisex	Greek
Kas		Unisex
Kasia	Pure	Female	Polish
Kaska		Unisex	Hebrew
Kat	pure	Female	English
Katalina	Lovely Sunset	Unisex	Biblical, Italian
Katarina	pure	Female	Czech
Kate	Pure	Female	English
Katerina	Blessed, Pure, Holy	Unisex	Czechoslovakian
Kathi	after a character in the Lymond novels by Dorothy Dunnett	Unisex
Kathleen	Innocent	Female	Anglicized
Katie	Variant of Katherine. Pure.	Female	English
Katina	Pure, Unsullied	Unisex	Greek
Katinka	after the character in the movie Zoolander	Unisex
Katka		Unisex	Hebrew
Katrina	Greek, pure	Female
Katy	pure	Female	Short
Katy	pure	Female	Short
Katya	pure	Female	Russian
Kit	Nickname for Christopher. Frontiersman Kit Carson.	Male	English
Kitti		Unisex	Hebrew
Kitty	Variant of Katherine. Pure.	Female	English
Kitty	Variant of Katherine. Pure.	Female	English
Kitty	Variant of Katherine. Pure.	Female	English
Trina	German variation of Katherine	Female	Scandinavian

Famous People Named Katherine:

Katherine Mansfield was a well-known 19th century modernist writer.

Katherine Heigl is an American actress and film producer.

Katherine Dunham was an American dancer and choreographer, credited to have brought the influence of Africa and the Caribbean into American dance.

Katherine Anne Porter was an American Pulitzer prize winning journalist, essayist, novelist and a short story writer.

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