Kittie
Kittie was last recorded in 1988, when 6 babies were given it; 2,467 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kittie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kittie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,072, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1889, the peak
Kittie peaked in 1889, when 63 girls were given it, #306 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 6 | #11,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,076 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,199 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,648 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | #7,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,546 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,475 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,299 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,598 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,059 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,945 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,792 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,985 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,658 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,357 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,815 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,859 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,331 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,285 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,985 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,616 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,768 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,919 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,363 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,612 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,173 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,556 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,052 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,958 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,005 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,914 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,867 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,069 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,461 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,626 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,986 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,391 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,559 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,248 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,429 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 41 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,764 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 27 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 20 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 21 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 23 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 18 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 22 | #791 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 22 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 17 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 19 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 30 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 34 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 29 | #573 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 32 | #576 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 30 | #546 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 29 | #571 | 0.12 |
| 1895 | 33 | #516 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 42 | #433 | 0.19 |
| 1893 | 31 | #494 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 49 | #382 | 0.23 |
| 1891 | 39 | #397 | 0.21 |
| 1890 | 44 | #380 | 0.23 |
| 1889 | 63 | #306 | 0.35 |
| 1888 | 54 | #328 | 0.30 |
| 1887 | 53 | #293 | 0.36 |
| 1886 | 38 | #350 | 0.26 |
| 1885 | 49 | #285 | 0.37 |
| 1884 | 40 | #310 | 0.31 |
| 1883 | 35 | #296 | 0.31 |
| 1882 | 40 | #279 | 0.37 |
| 1881 | 24 | #331 | 0.26 |
| 1880 | 38 | #252 | 0.42 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kittie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kittie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 106 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kittie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kittie, and how old are they?
An estimated 603 Americans named Kittie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 61 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 703 people named Kittie (703 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 716 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kittie?
Kittie is a less common spelling of Kitty: SSA has recorded 2,467 Kittie and 11,657 Kitty since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 14,254 babies since 1880, Kittie is the second most given (17% of them).
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 Kittie
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 Kittie and names like it
- Compare Kittie and KittyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sKittie peaked in 1889.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kittie since 1910.
- The top names of 1889The year the most babies were named Kittie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kittie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.