girls:
334k births since 1910
#112 (98th percentile)
boys:
739 births since 1942
#3848 (16th percentile)
overall:
334.8k births since 1910
#220 (97th percentile)
The name Kathy is the #220 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 334,753 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 97.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #112 (98.1% percentile) for all time with 334,014 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #3,848 (16.0% percentile) for all time with 739 births since 1942.
Kathy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1942 for boys). Birth data for Kathy is available in 111 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (111 years for girls and 41 years for boys). 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.
The name Kathy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kathy reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 98.3% percentile (ranked #14) with 11,589 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 11,589 births per million (ranked 98.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1960, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kathy ranks #893 for girls (5.7% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kathy reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #613) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 23 births per million (ranked 6.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kathy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kathy is pronounced as KA-thee, which has 2 syllables.
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