Kateri
Kateri was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,405 among girls’ names; 2,533 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,440 Americans named Kateri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 14 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kateri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kateri?
#4,405 among girls’ names, 2025
Kateri fell from #3,411 in 2015 to #4,405 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.3 to 19.9 per million.
65 babies in 1980, the peak
Kateri peaked in 1980, when 65 girls were given it, #1,728 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,405 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,860 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,740 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,677 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,578 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,395 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,964 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,981 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,332 | 27.8 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,161 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,411 | 26.3 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,827 | 34.1 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,789 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,884 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,633 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,914 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,009 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,403 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,407 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,037 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,337 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,594 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,496 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,217 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,855 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,722 | 29.7 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,585 | 31.0 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,741 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,405 | 31.6 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,817 | 24.5 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,636 | 26.7 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,007 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,783 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,625 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,950 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,865 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,006 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,457 | 24.7 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,109 | 29.9 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,587 | 22.2 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,266 | 26.2 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,321 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,449 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,231 | 26.6 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,544 | 22.2 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,728 | 39.1 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,121 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,839 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,036 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,451 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,095 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,043 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,065 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,189 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,099 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,941 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,051 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,909 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,347 | 16.4 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,316 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,781 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,779 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,230 | 15.0 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,862 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,120 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,146 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,524 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,633 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,390 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,602 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,295 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,158 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,086 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,297 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,597 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,678 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,626 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,009 | 3.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,585 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kateri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kateri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kateri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kateri, and how old are they?
2,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,533 Americans ever recorded as Kateri. The median Kateri alive today is 28 years old; half are between 14 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 2,145 people named Kateri (2,136 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 153 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 333 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 656 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 586 |
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 Kateri born?
The states with the most babies named Kateri are New York, California and New Mexico, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 126 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 80 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Mexico | 41 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Kateri 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 6,307 babies since 1880, Kateri is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 83 babies (39%), the second 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 Kateri
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 Kateri and names like it
- Compare Kateri and KataraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKateri peaked in 1980.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kateri since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Kateri.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kateri alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.