girls:
20.8k births since 1880
#1006 (82nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1980
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
20.8k births since 1880
#1775 (77th percentile)
The name Katy is the #1,775 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,819 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,006 (82.4% percentile) for all time with 20,814 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1980.
Katy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1980 for boys). Birth data for Katy is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for girls and 1 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 Katy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Katy reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 59.2% percentile (ranked #328) with 360 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 360 births per million (ranked 59.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1987, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Katy ranks #863 for girls (8.9% percentile) with 51 births per million, which is 14.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Katy reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #681) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katy".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Katie. View all variations of Katie.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Katy", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 22 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Katie" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Katie..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Katy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Katy is pronounced as KAY-tee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-tee, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K EY1 T IY0) 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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