Popular Names
CATHARINE Name
| Name: | Catharine |
| Gender: | Female |
| Origin/Usage: | English, Irish |
| Meaning: | Form of the Greek Catherine meaning pure |
Catharine Esther Beecher: "How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering."