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Cathie

Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Cathy

Cathie has been given to 5,586 babies in the U.S. since 1926. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 277 recorded.

Babies named Cathie, 1998

1 in 613,000

Cathie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cathie: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Cathy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cathie means

Cathie belongs to the name family reached through Cathie → Cathy → Catherine. Its meaning is “each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cathie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cathy and Catherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,586 girls were recorded with the name Cathie between 1926 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 277 in 1958; its best national rank was #504 in 1951.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cathie?

Cathie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 613,000
6 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only
1 in 294,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
424,807 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cathie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 424,807 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cathie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cathies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cathie was born before 1955 — so the typical Cathie is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,105
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1950s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (2,504).

Is Cathie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (277)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#504
1951

Spellings of Cathie

Cathie is not the most common spelling — Carrie is, with 23.0% against Cathie's 0.48%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cathie is used

Across 1910–2025, Cathie was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 41,666 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 20,000
  2. 2Oregon1 in 20,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 20,000
  4. 4California1 in 25,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 25,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 25,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 25,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cathie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cathie around the world

Where Cathie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1952–2017
    #6,979
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1946–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cathie

People whose public names include Cathie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cathie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cathie. Linked forms have their own page here.

CathKateKatiKatyCarinCathiCathyKarenKarinKathyKatiaKatieKatjaKatriKatyaCatrinKareenKathieKatrinCathrynKatalinKatrinaKatrineCatalina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cathie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#504
1951
Peak year
1958
277 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
5,586
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cathie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CatrinaCatinaCathrynCatarinaCaterinaCatheyCataleyaCatieCattleyaCateRuthieArchieCathiCatoriCatelynCatlinCathrineCathleenCatalinaCatlynKathieCatalayaCathernCatrice

Names with a curve like Cathie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cathie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CheryleCindaSherrylPamellaKaranFranSuzanCheryllKaronLynGlindaGaye

Sibling names for Cathie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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