girls:
1.6k births since 1938
#4156 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1938
#6146 (21st percentile)
The name Kathey is the #6,146 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,600 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 20.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,156 (27.3% percentile) for all time with 1,600 births since 1938.
Kathey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (first recorded for girls in 1938). Birth data for Kathey is available in 37 out of the 40 years between 1938 and 1977. 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, Kathey reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 16.2% percentile (ranked #626) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 61 births per million (ranked 16.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kathey".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kathey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Kathey is pronounced as KA-thee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-thee, at 34.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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