girls:
2.4k births since 1949
#3568 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1949
#5463 (29th percentile)
The name Katey is the #5,463 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,352 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 29.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,568 (37.6% percentile) for all time with 2,352 births since 1949.
Katey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (first recorded for girls in 1949). Birth data for Katey is available in 64 out of the 75 years between 1949 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, Katey reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 11.7% percentile (ranked #759) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 52 births per million (ranked 11.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Katey ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katey".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Katey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Katey is pronounced as KAY-tee, which has 2 syllables.
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