Katee
Katee was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 637 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Katee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,439, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1986, the peak
Katee peaked in 1986, when 35 girls were given it, #2,752 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,439 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,846 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,665 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,221 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,720 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,936 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,020 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,675 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,097 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,968 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 20 | #5,917 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,259 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,717 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,785 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,131 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,689 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,323 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,916 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,754 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,430 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,717 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,139 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,239 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,391 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,201 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,000 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,460 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,752 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,362 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,686 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,614 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,267 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,232 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,088 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,564 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,346 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,913 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,960 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,726 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,373 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katee, and how old are they?
An estimated 622 Americans named Katee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 27 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 647 people named Katee (642 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 626 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Katee?
Katee is a less common spelling of Katie: SSA has recorded 637 Katee and 241,784 Katie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 369,333 babies since 1880, Katee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,229 babies recorded by SSA was a Katee (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 Katee
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 Katee and names like it
- Compare Katee and KatieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKatee peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katee since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Katee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Katee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.