Catherine (43 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Catherine

Our model has identified 43 different spellings of Catherine that are grouped together because they share at least one of 5 different pronunciations. If something seems off, you can help us improve our grouping algorithm by rating whether pronunciations are correct or incorrect for a given spelling.

The audio files on this page are organized by pronunciation. Click the play button next to each spelling to hear that pronunciation spoken aloud for a particular spelling.

Our model is 39.7% confident that Catherine is pronounced as KA-ther-ihn. There are 26 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Catherine is KA-thrihn, at 29.4% confidence. There are 30 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

KA-thrihn

72.1%

1,899,525

99.64%

29.4%

KA-ther-ihn

62.8%

1,401,184

73.50%

39.7%

KA-ther-een

44.2%

1,393,428

73.09%

11.8%

KA-trihn

11.6%

1,318,796

69.17%

8.8%

KA-ther-uhn

9.3%

667,934

35.04%

10.3%

KA-ther-ihn (3 syllables)

27 names (62.8% of variations) 73.50% of births

K AE1 TH ER0 IH0 N

Catherine

Verified

Confidence: 39.7%

Katherine

Verified

Confidence: 51.8%

Confidence: 36.0%

Confidence: 70.7%

Confidence: 40.8%

Confidence: 88.2%

Confidence: 18.9%

Confidence: 60.0%

Confidence: 68.4%

Confidence: 50.0%

KA-thrihn (2 syllables)

31 names (72.1% of variations) 99.64% of births

K AE1 TH R IH0 N

Catherine

Verified

Confidence: 29.4%

Katherine

Verified

Confidence: 25.0%

Kathryn

Verified

Confidence: 86.8%

Katharine

Verified

Confidence: 44.0%

Confidence: 100.0%

Confidence: 74.3%

Confidence: 14.6%

Verified

Confidence: 40.8%

Cathrine

Confidence: 61.9%

Kathryne

Confidence: 78.1%

KA-ther-een (3 syllables)

19 names (44.2% of variations) 73.09% of births

K AE1 TH ER0 IY0 N

Confidence: 11.8%

Confidence: 12.5%

Confidence: 8.0%

Confidence: 14.6%

Confidence: 12.2%

Confidence: 31.4%

Confidence: 15.8%

Confidence: 9.4%

Confidence: 34.1%

Confidence: 33.3%

KA-ther-uhn (3 syllables)

4 names (9.3% of variations) 35.04% of births

K AE1 TH ER0 AH0 N

Catherine

Verified

Confidence: 10.3%

Katheren

Confidence: 19.4%

Katheran

Confidence: 100.0%

Catheren

Confidence: 30.8%

KA-trihn (2 syllables)

5 names (11.6% of variations) 69.17% of births

K AE1 T R IH0 N

Confidence: 8.8%

Confidence: 10.7%

Confidence: 22.5%

Confidence: 56.8%

Confidence: 55.6%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Catherine. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Catherine, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KA-thruhn (2 syllables)

5 names 459.9k births

K AE1 TH R AH0 N

Should "Catherine" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Kathryn 455.7k births

KA-thuh-rihn (3 syllables)

5 names 55.9k births

K AE1 TH AH0 R IH0 N

Should "Catherine" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Katharine 41.2k births

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K AE1 TH ER0 IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable. It's really hard to get a text-to-speech model to say names the way you want it to. And describing how vowels are emphasized in English is a bit of a mess.