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Katee

Girls' name

Diminutive of Kate

Katee has been given to 637 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1986, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Katee, 2015

1 in 617,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katee: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Kate

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katee means

Katee is a diminutive of Kate.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Katee is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkeɪ.ti/ for Katee.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Katee → Kate → Katherine → Catherine. The family’s proposed meaning is “each of the two”, recorded in English with the source elements hekáteros.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kate.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 637 girls were recorded with the name Katee between 1974 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1986; its best national rank was #2,752 in 1986.

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 Katee?

Katee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katee 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katee was born before 1991 — so the typical Katee is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
637
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Katee 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (35)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,752
1986

Spellings of Katee

Katee is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 46.3% against Katee's 0.03%.

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 Katee is used

Across 1910–2025, Katee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 856,988 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Katee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katee around the world

Where Katee 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
    2002–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Katee 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
#2,752
1986
Peak year
1986
35 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
637
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Katee

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

KatjaKattyKathyaEsteeKatyeKataraKathiaKatyaKathaKatanaKatheKatrielKatoriKaterinKatianaKateriKateraKataliaKatalynaKatiaKaturahKattiKatalayaKatrin

Sibling names for Katee

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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