Kathee
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kathee has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1957, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Kathee, 1964
1 in 555,000
Kathee over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kathee?
Kathee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1964
- 1 in 555,000
- 7 of 3,887,460 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 271,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1964
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 384,941 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kathee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 384,941 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kathee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kathees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kathee was born before 1956 — so the typical Kathee is around 69 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 53.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 136
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (91).
Is Kathee 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1957 (13)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kathee
Kathee is not the most common spelling — Kathleen is, with 44.0% against Kathee's 0.01%.
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.
Kathee around the world
Where Kathee 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.
- South Australia1969–1969#499in 1969
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kathee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kathee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kathee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.