Catie
Catie was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,533 among girls’ names; 1,033 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Catie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Catie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Catie is “a diminutive of the female given names Catherine and Caitlin.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Catie?
#13,533 among girls’ names, 2025
Catie fell from #7,701 in 2015 to #13,533 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.7 per million.
42 babies in 1990, the peak
Catie peaked in 1990, when 42 girls were given it, #2,738 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,533 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,414 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,383 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,506 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,453 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,433 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,242 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,140 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,114 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,002 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,701 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,738 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,790 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,216 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,181 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,347 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,148 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,314 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,935 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,706 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,980 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,510 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,451 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,792 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,960 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,995 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,903 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,253 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,022 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,641 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,678 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,711 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,690 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,272 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,213 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,738 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,579 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,318 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,669 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,067 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,808 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,158 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,831 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,557 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,935 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,275 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,771 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,706 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,567 | 7.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,596 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,498 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Catie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Catie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Catie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catie, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,033 Americans ever recorded as Catie. The median Catie alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,852 people named Catie (1,843 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 974 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 47 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 446 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 388 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 132 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 368,342 babies since 1880, Catie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,204 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Catie
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 Catie and names like it
- Compare Catie and KatieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCatie peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catie since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Catie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Catie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.