Kathey
Kathey was last recorded in 1977, when 6 babies were given it; 1,600 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Kathey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 65 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kathey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kathey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,960, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
126 babies in 1956, the peak
Kathey peaked in 1956, when 126 girls were given it, #889 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 | #8,960 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,963 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,857 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,978 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,941 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,156 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,524 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,578 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,593 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,220 | 17.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 26 | #2,372 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,875 | 21.1 |
| 1963 | 58 | #1,469 | 30.1 |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,566 | 26.4 |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,540 | 26.8 |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,343 | 33.6 |
| 1959 | 76 | #1,225 | 37.6 |
| 1958 | 103 | #1,029 | 51.2 |
| 1957 | 80 | #1,182 | 39.1 |
| 1956 | 126 | #889 | 62.8 |
| 1955 | 78 | #1,133 | 39.9 |
| 1954 | 87 | #1,055 | 44.8 |
| 1953 | 91 | #1,010 | 48.4 |
| 1952 | 87 | #1,009 | 46.9 |
| 1951 | 80 | #1,039 | 44.4 |
| 1950 | 69 | #1,109 | 40.3 |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,328 | 28.1 |
| 1948 | 47 | #1,350 | 27.7 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,678 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,831 | 15.9 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,719 | 18.4 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,341 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,727 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,010 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,989 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,855 | 8.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,656 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kathey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kathey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kathey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kathey, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 1,600 Americans ever recorded as Kathey. The median Kathey alive today is 70 years old; half are between 65 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 1,349 people named Kathey (1,346 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,353 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 58 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 165 |
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 Kathey born?
The states with the most babies named Kathey are Texas, Tennessee and North Carolina, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 207 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Tennessee | 138 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| North Carolina | 74 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 36 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Arkansas | 30 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Oklahoma | 29 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Kathey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kathey is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1938 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kathey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kathey?
Kathey is a less common spelling of Kathy: SSA has recorded 1,600 Kathey and 334,870 Kathy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 537,090 babies since 1880, Kathey is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 83 babies recorded by SSA was a Kathey (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 Kathey
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 Kathey and names like it
- Compare Kathey and KathyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKathey peaked in 1956.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kathey since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Kathey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kathey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.