girls:
170.3k births since 1918
#231 (96th percentile)
boys:
343 births since 1945
#4243 (7th percentile)
overall:
170.6k births since 1918
#441 (94th percentile)
The name Cathy is the #441 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 170,612 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 94.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #231 (96.0% percentile) for all time with 170,269 births since 1918. For boys, it ranks #4,243 (7.4% percentile) for all time with 343 births since 1945.
Cathy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for girls and 1945 for boys).
The name Cathy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cathy reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 95.7% percentile (ranked #34) with 5,296 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 5,296 births per million (ranked 95.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cathy ranks #927 for girls (2.1% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cathy reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #621) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1974.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cathy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cathy is pronounced as KA-thee, which has 2 syllables.
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