Cathia — girls' name
34 babies named Cathia in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Cathia was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Cathia in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cathia
The Social Security Administration has registered 34 babies named Cathia between 1980 and 2003, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cathia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cathia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 14 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Cathia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cathia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 34 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Cathia at a glance
Last recorded 2003Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cathia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–1980
- Peak year (1996)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2003.
34 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 9 births in a single year.
Cathia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 14 births that decade — 41% of Cathia's all-time total
Cathia decade highlights
- Peak decade 14 births
- Runner-up 14 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Cathia's strongest decade
14 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2003 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.