Girls' name · since 1915
Cather
27 babies named Cather in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1915. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #42,122 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 27
- born since 1915
- 1930s
- peak decade
27 girls have been named Cather since 1915, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Cather has 27 recorded births among girls since 1915, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1930s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 1938.
- #42,122 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 27 born since 1915
- 1930s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cather ranks #42,122 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 27 born since 1915, peaking in the 1930s.
- #42,122 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 27
- born since 1915
- 1930s
- peak decade
Cather's 27 recorded births place it above 41.22% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cather's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Cather's SSA record in two at 1932 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1931, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1915 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Cather popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–1938
- Peak year (1915)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 24 years of records
Cather by decade
1930s is the heaviest window (21 births, 78% of the file).
1930s was Cather's strongest decade.
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 78% of all-time use.
Cather births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 6
1910s
6 births
- 1930s
1930s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 1930s at 21 births (78% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cather: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1915)
Similar record span (~23 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1915–1938 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cather draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.