Kathie
Kathie was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 15,086 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,600 Americans named Kathie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 63 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kathie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kathie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,800, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
948 babies in 1954, the peak
Kathie peaked in 1954, when 948 girls were given it, #274 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #12,800 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,953 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,070 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,553 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,490 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,564 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,734 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,060 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,399 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,315 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 11 | #10,423 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,274 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,676 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,705 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,292 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,779 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,004 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,690 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,232 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,659 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,184 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,748 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,988 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,173 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,835 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,059 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,902 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,392 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,584 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,258 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,629 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,010 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,195 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,275 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,617 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,165 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,356 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,136 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,127 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,659 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,816 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,117 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,490 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,372 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 107 | #1,080 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 129 | #947 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 171 | #814 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 198 | #747 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 191 | #731 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 159 | #797 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 163 | #774 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 146 | #824 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 207 | #685 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 267 | #613 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 281 | #595 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 337 | #533 | 0.17 |
| 1961 | 397 | #489 | 0.20 |
| 1960 | 470 | #452 | 0.23 |
| 1959 | 516 | #415 | 0.26 |
| 1958 | 608 | #370 | 0.30 |
| 1957 | 557 | #387 | 0.27 |
| 1956 | 587 | #361 | 0.29 |
| 1955 | 782 | #307 | 0.40 |
| 1954 | 948 | #274 | 0.49 |
| 1953 | 835 | #286 | 0.44 |
| 1952 | 810 | #286 | 0.44 |
| 1951 | 789 | #281 | 0.44 |
| 1950 | 634 | #308 | 0.37 |
| 1949 | 574 | #325 | 0.34 |
| 1948 | 536 | #337 | 0.32 |
| 1947 | 489 | #363 | 0.28 |
| 1946 | 414 | #372 | 0.26 |
| 1945 | 315 | #399 | 0.24 |
| 1944 | 291 | #421 | 0.22 |
| 1943 | 254 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1942 | 229 | #494 | 0.17 |
| 1941 | 129 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 82 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,189 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,249 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,832 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,590 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,299 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,957 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,222 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,065 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kathie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kathie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kathie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kathie, and how old are they?
11,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 15,086 Americans ever recorded as Kathie. The median Kathie alive today is 70 years old; half are between 63 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 12,647 people named Kathie (12,639 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,674 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 | 718 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8,310 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,720 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 547 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 281 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 48 |
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 Kathie born?
The states with the most babies named Kathie are California, Ohio and New York, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,492 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 930 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 876 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 870 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 827 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 816 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 683 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 496 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Washington | 366 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Missouri | 349 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Kathie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kathie is most over-represented in Washington: since 1918 it was given 1.5 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 Kathie 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 Kathie?
Kathie is a less common spelling of Kathy: SSA has recorded 15,086 Kathie and 334,870 Kathy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 372,350 babies since 1880, Kathie is the second most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 71 babies recorded by SSA was a Kathie (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 Kathie
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 Kathie and names like it
- Compare Kathie and KathyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKathie peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kathie since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Kathie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kathie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.