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Kateri

#4,405 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kateri has been given to 2,533 babies in the U.S. since 1937. In 2025 it ranked #4,405 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Kateri, 2025

1 in 104,000

Kateri over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kateri: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kateri means

Kateri is a given name.

The naming story behind Kateri

Wikidata records Kateri as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98669265, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,533 girls were recorded with the name Kateri between 1937 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1980; its best national rank was #1,728 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,395 in 2020 to #4,405 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,411 in 2015 to #4,405 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.

How common is Kateri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,405
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kateri 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kateri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kateris were born

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

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,517
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (494).

Is Kateri 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
−545
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−994
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.2%
Peak was 1980 (65)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,728
1980

Spellings of Kateri

Kateri is not the most common spelling — Kate is, with 27.2% against Kateri's 0.80%.

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 Kateri is used

Across 1910–2025, Kateri was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 224,049 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 20,000
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Kateri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kateri around the world

Where Kateri 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
    2009–2013
    #5,324
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kateri

People whose public names include Kateri, 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.

Kateri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,405
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 10
Best rank ever
#1,728
1980
Peak year
1980
65 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,533
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Kateri

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

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Names with a curve like Kateri

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

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Sibling names for Kateri

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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