Ketty
Ketty was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 129 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ketty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ketty mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Ketty is “a female given name derived from Kitty, the English pet form of Katherine”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ketty?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,668, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1960, the peak
Ketty peaked in 1960, when 9 girls were given it, #4,608 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #16,668 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,578 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,596 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,362 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,072 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,355 | 4.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,793 | 3.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,634 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,645 | 5.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,760 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #9,403 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,351 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,879 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,257 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,557 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,079 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,576 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,608 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,891 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,095 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ketty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ketty has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ketty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ketty, and how old are they?
An estimated 119 Americans named Ketty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 39 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,198 people named Ketty (1,186 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 122 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9.8 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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ketty
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.