Girls' name · since 2007
Katori
195 babies named Katori in U.S. Social Security records since 2007, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,072 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,887 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 195
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
195 babies have been named Katori since 2007, making it today's #9887 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Katori has been recorded 195 times among girls since 2007, currently ranked #9887 nationally and more common than 43% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- #20,072 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,887 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 195 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Katori ranks #20,072 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,887 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 195 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #20,072 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,887 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 195
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Katori's 195 recorded births place it above 72.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Katori compares
195 36th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Katori's all-time total is 48% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Katori | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 195 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 20 | 21 | 19,840 |
Katori's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Katori splits its recorded history at 2017: 58% of all births land in the more recent half, 42% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2017 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 20 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Katori popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Katori popularity over time - boys
7 total births recorded since 2023 (Katori as boys' name)
Katori by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (94 births, 48% of the file).
2020s was Katori's strongest decade.
94 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Katori births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
38 births
- 2010s
2010s
63 births
- 2020s
2020s
94 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 94 births (48% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Katori: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~18 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2007–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Katori draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.