girls:
84.8k births since 1880
#414 (93rd percentile)
boys:
89 births since 1902
#4497 (2nd percentile)
overall:
84.9k births since 1880
#760 (90th percentile)
The name Kate is the #760 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 84,927 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #414 (92.8% percentile) for all time with 84,838 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,497 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 89 births since 1902.
Kate has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1902 for boys).
The name Kate has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kate reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 86.3% percentile (ranked #136) with 1,205 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 3,063 births per million (ranked 64.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kate ranks #427 for girls (55.0% percentile) with 365 births per million, which is 11.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kate reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kate".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kate. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kate is pronounced as kayt, which has 1 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K EY1 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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.
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