Cathie — girls' name

What the Data Says About Cathie

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,586 babies named Cathie between 1926 and 1998, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cathie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 277 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cathie performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 2,504 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Cathie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 573 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Cathie in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cathie 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 5,586 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.