Katty
Katty was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,083 among girls’ names; 1,004 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Katty mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Katty is “a female given name, diminutive of Katherine and of its variant forms.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Katty?
#16,083 among girls’ names, 2025
Katty fell from #6,346 in 2015 to #16,083 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 3.1 per million.
34 babies in 2000, the peak
Katty peaked in 2000, when 34 girls were given it, #3,770 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,083 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,675 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,290 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,235 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,836 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,669 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,875 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,470 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,538 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,214 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,346 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,708 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,586 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,036 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,131 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,874 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,462 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,649 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,948 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,630 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,126 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,623 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,390 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,352 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,692 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,770 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,049 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,529 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,325 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,166 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,756 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,915 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,037 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,816 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,775 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,299 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,061 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,446 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,170 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,944 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,202 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,062 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,563 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,091 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,076 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,091 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,231 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,348 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,665 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,780 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,513 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,579 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,995 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,257 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,895 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,144 | 3.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,030 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,815 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,707 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,705 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,908 | 3.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,552 | 4.8 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,394 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katty has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katty, and how old are they?
An estimated 969 Americans named Katty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,262 people named Katty (2,254 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 901 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Katty born?
The states with the most babies named Katty are California, New York and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 168 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 50 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Katty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katty is most over-represented in California: since 1925 it was given 1.3 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 Katty 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 369,700 babies since 1880, Katty is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,234 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Katty
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 Katty and names like it
- Compare Katty and KatieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKatty peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katty since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Katty.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Katty alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.