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Catie

#13,533 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Catherine or Caitlin

Catie has been given to 1,033 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #13,533 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Catie, 2025

1 in 553,000

Catie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Catie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Catherine or Caitlin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Catie means

Catie is a diminutive of Catherine or Caitlin.

Origin, language, and formation

Catie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Catherine and Caitlin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,033 girls were recorded with the name Catie between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,669 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,433 in 2020 to #13,533 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,701 in 2015 to #13,533 in 2025.

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 Catie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,533
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Catie 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Catie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Catie was born before 1997 — so the typical Catie is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,033
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Choose a decade

1990s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (310).

Is Catie 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
−1,119
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,100
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,832
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1990 (42)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,669
1987

Spellings of Catie

Catie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 21.1% against Catie's 0.04%.

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 Catie is used

Across 1910–2025, Catie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 690,090 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Catie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Catie around the world

Where Catie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2012
    #4,838
    in 2012
  • France
    1956–2001
    #3,396
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1987–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Catie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,533
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,100
Best rank ever
#2,669
1987
Peak year
1990
42 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,033
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Catie

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

CattieCateEttieCatoriCatlinCathiMartieCatiaCatyCatlynCatalayaCatheOttieCatheyCatriceCathernCataliaLutieCattleyaCateraAltieCattaleyaMatieCatalea

Sibling names for Catie

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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