Cathie
Cathie was last recorded in 1998, when 6 babies were given it; 5,586 Americans have been recorded with it between 1926 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,250 Americans named Cathie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cathie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cathie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cathie is “Alternative spelling of Cathy (“diminutive of the female given name Catherine”)”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cathie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,723, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
277 babies in 1958, the peak
Cathie peaked in 1958, when 277 girls were given it, #597 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #12,723 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,036 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,866 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,155 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,180 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,560 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 16 | #4,547 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,258 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,785 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,199 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,621 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,444 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,981 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,700 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,774 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,570 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,671 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,521 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 80 | #1,187 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 69 | #1,305 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 90 | #1,111 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 126 | #941 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 150 | #855 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 160 | #829 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 185 | #769 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 195 | #724 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 215 | #685 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 277 | #597 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 244 | #624 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 252 | #598 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 237 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 241 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 271 | #519 | 0.14 |
| 1952 | 259 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1951 | 266 | #504 | 0.15 |
| 1950 | 242 | #534 | 0.14 |
| 1949 | 240 | #534 | 0.14 |
| 1948 | 228 | #548 | 0.13 |
| 1947 | 250 | #528 | 0.14 |
| 1946 | 166 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1945 | 121 | #675 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 136 | #625 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 91 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 105 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 48 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,050 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,218 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,495 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,763 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,878 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,918 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,950 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cathie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cathie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cathie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cathie, and how old are they?
4,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 5,586 Americans ever recorded as Cathie. The median Cathie alive today is 70 years old; half are between 64 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 4,844 people named Cathie (4,843 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,659 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 293 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,230 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 649 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cathie born?
The states with the most babies named Cathie are California, Ohio and Illinois, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 573 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 342 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 296 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 293 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 281 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 237 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 232 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 151 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Washington | 128 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 99 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Cathie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cathie is most over-represented in Washington: since 1926 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cathie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 208,742 babies since 1880, Cathie is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 35 babies recorded by SSA was a Cathie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cathie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cathie and names like it
- Compare Cathie and CathyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCathie peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cathie since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Cathie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cathie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.