Kathe
Kathe was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 1,077 Americans have been recorded with it between 1940 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kathe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kathe?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,811, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1951, the peak
Kathe peaked in 1951, when 56 girls were given it, #1,245 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #17,811 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,400 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,486 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,483 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,015 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,161 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,039 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,762 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,167 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,511 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | #8,129 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,664 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,130 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,223 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,330 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,399 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,481 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,326 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,171 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,012 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,187 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,174 | 14.9 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,822 | 19.3 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,680 | 21.3 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,688 | 20.4 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,883 | 16.6 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,421 | 27.4 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,488 | 24.0 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,636 | 20.1 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,514 | 22.3 |
| 1952 | 49 | #1,390 | 26.4 |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,245 | 31.1 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,559 | 21.0 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,345 | 27.5 |
| 1948 | 53 | #1,258 | 31.2 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,562 | 20.9 |
| 1946 | 52 | #1,198 | 33.1 |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,343 | 27.5 |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,162 | 34.7 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,682 | 18.6 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,888 | 15.5 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,126 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,361 | 11.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kathe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kathe has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kathe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kathe, and how old are they?
An estimated 812 Americans named Kathe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 64 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,352 people named Kathe (1,352 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 894 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kathe rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 542,126 babies since 1880, Kathe is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 60 babies recorded by SSA was a Kathe (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 Kathe
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 Kathe and names like it
- Compare Kathe and KathyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKathe peaked in 1951.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kathe since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Kathe.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kathe alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.