girls:
2.5k births since 1937
#3493 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1937
#5372 (31st percentile)
The name Kateri is the #5,372 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,460 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 30.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,493 (38.9% percentile) for all time with 2,460 births since 1937.
Kateri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (first recorded for girls in 1937). Birth data for Kateri is available in 77 out of the 87 years between 1937 and 2023. 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, Kateri reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 7.7% percentile (ranked #725) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 37 births per million (ranked 7.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kateri ranks #911 for girls (3.8% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 64.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kateri".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kateri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.8% confident that Kateri is pronounced as kuh-TEH-ree, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-TEH-ree, at 24.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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