Kate
Kate is ranked 535th among girls in 2024 (569 births). Its best rank was 79th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- #535down 57 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5690.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 20072,550 births
- Best rank
- #79in 1880
- Since 1880
- 85,411people given the name
The story in the numbers
85,411 girls have been named Kate in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 2,550 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 208 → 535).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2000s alone account for 24%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kate | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,194 | |
| 1890s | 3,001 | |
| 1900s | 2,058 | |
| 1910s | 2,840 | |
| 1920s | 1,966 | |
| 1930s | 967 | |
| 1940s | 1,002 | |
| 1950s | 1,259 | |
| 1960s | 2,038 | |
| 1970s | 5,497 | |
| 1980s | 13,569 | |
| 1990s | 9,355 | |
| 2000s | 20,768 | |
| 2010s | 14,470 | |
| 2020s | 3,427 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Kate was the 136th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Kate
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Abbiepeak 2003
- Emeliepeak 2003
- Mahalapeak 2006
- Jemimapeak 2018
- Emmapeak 2003
- Emiliepeak 2003
- Isapeak 2018
- Minapeak 2023
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.