Kateri — #3969 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kateri

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,498 babies named Kateri between 1937 and 2024, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kateri currently holds the #3969 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 65 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kateri performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 494 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Kateri shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 126 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Kateri in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kateri 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 2,498 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.