Kati
Kati was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 4,772 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,610 Americans named Kati and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kati by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kati mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kati is “a rare modern spelling variant of Katie, diminutive of the female given name Katherine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kati?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,340, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
261 babies in 1986, the peak
Kati peaked in 1986, when 261 girls were given it, #694 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,340 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,280 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,339 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,299 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,955 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,620 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,309 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,489 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,248 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,343 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 18 | #7,004 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,985 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,503 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,876 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,893 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,613 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,891 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,551 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,904 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,557 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,724 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,070 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,577 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 75 | #2,062 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,017 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,855 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,691 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 111 | #1,447 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 136 | #1,257 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 161 | #1,116 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 201 | #954 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 215 | #904 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 221 | #876 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 249 | #776 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 241 | #782 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 237 | #761 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 261 | #694 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 212 | #790 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 253 | #673 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 184 | #833 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 166 | #911 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 144 | #1,011 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 147 | #997 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 119 | #1,131 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 131 | #1,042 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,488 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,758 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,943 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,153 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,475 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,480 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,906 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,215 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,732 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,321 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,327 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,214 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,532 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,513 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,527 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,580 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,169 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,128 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,409 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,167 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,091 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kati a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kati has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kati: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kati, and how old are they?
4,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,772 Americans ever recorded as Kati. The median Kati alive today is 38 years old; half are between 33 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 5,037 people named Kati (5,018 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,628 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 96 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 733 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,990 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 699 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 90 |
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 Kati born?
The states with the most babies named Kati are California, Texas and Michigan, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 346 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 324 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 190 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 188 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 166 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 143 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 135 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 115 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 111 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 98 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Kati is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kati is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1953 it was given 1.1 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 Kati 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 371,055 babies since 1880, Kati is the sixth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,229 babies recorded by SSA was a Kati (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 Kati
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 Kati and names like it
- Compare Kati and KatieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKati peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kati since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Kati.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kati alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.