Cathy

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cathy".

1918 2023 19182023

Key Statistics

Total Births
170,269
Peak Births
10,941
Peak Year
1958
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
95.7%
Current Percentile
2.1%
Peak Rank
#34
Current Rank
#927
Female statistics
Total Births
343
Peak Births
23
Peak Year
1956
First Recorded
1945
Peak Percentile
2.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#535
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Cathy

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Cathy. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Cathy is pronounced as KA-thee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Cathy. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Cathy, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KAY-thee (2 syllables)
5 names 9.8k births
K EY1 TH IY0
KA-thee (2 syllables)
2 names 3.8k births
K AE1 DH IY0

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.