Kathy
Kathy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 64 births. Its best rank was 14th, in 1958.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 640.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195823,940 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1958
- Since 1910
- 334,084people given the name
The story in the numbers
334,084 girls have been named Kathy in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 23,940 births — 1.2% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 64 births in 2024, against 23,940 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 47%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 26 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kathy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 57 | |
| 1920s | 198 | |
| 1930s | 1,254 | |
| 1940s | 34,766 | |
| 1950s | 157,930 | |
| 1960s | 101,128 | |
| 1970s | 22,707 | |
| 1980s | 6,977 | |
| 1990s | 4,312 | |
| 2000s | 3,020 | |
| 2010s | 1,381 | |
| 2020s | 354 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Kathy was the 14th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Kathy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cathypeak 1958
- Kathipeak 1958
- Vickeypeak 1957
- Vickypeak 1957
- Pattipeak 1958
- Vickiepeak 1956
- Debbypeak 1959
- Geralynpeak 1956
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.