Cathleen

English, Irish
"pure"

Cathleen Origin and Meaning

The name Cathleen is a girl's name meaning "pure".

Variant of Kathleen

# 975 in the US

Cathleen Rank in US Top 1000

Famous People Named Cathleen

  • Cathleen Sabine Mann
    Marchioness of Queensberry, British portrait painter and costume designer
  • Cathleen Falsani
    American journalist
  • Cathleen Rund
    German Olympic swimmer
  • Cathleen Schine
    American novelist
  • Cathleen Cordell
    American actress
  • Kathleen Mary "Cathleen" Nesbitt
    British actress
  • Mary Cathleen Collins
    birth name of Bo Derek, American actress
  • Cathleen Synge Morawetz
    Irish,Canadian mathematician
  • Cathleen Hudson
    daughter of John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans
  • Cathleen Davitt Bell
    American novelist
  • Margo Cathleen Harshman
    American actress

Cathleen in Pop Culture

  • "Cathleen ni Houlihan" (1902)
    W.B. Yeats's play in which Kathleen ni Houlihan (a personification of Ireland as a woman, as Britannia is of Great Britain) appears as a mysterious wandering old woman who inspired the uprising of the United Irishmen in 1798.
  • Cathleen Calvert
    character in "Gone With the Wind"