girls:
2.5k births since 1942
#3439 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1942
#5308 (31st percentile)
The name Cathi is the #5,308 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,536 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 31.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,439 (39.8% percentile) for all time with 2,536 births since 1942.
Cathi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (first recorded for girls in 1942). Birth data for Cathi is available in 48 out of the 49 years between 1942 and 1990. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Cathi reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 20.0% percentile (ranked #612) with 77 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 78 births per million (ranked 19.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cathi".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Cathi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Cathi is pronounced as KA-thee, which has 2 syllables.
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