Kathey
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kathey has been given to 1,600 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 1956, with 126 recorded.
Babies named Kathey, 1977
1 in 529,000
Kathey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kathey?
Kathey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1977
- 1 in 529,000
- 6 of 3,176,294 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 256,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1977
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 366,941 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kathey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1977 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 366,941 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kathey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Katheys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kathey was born before 1956 — so the typical Kathey is around 69 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 54.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 68.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,331
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (877).
Is Kathey 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 1956 (126)
- Years since peak
- 69
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kathey
Kathey is not the most common spelling — Kathryn is, with 30.8% against Kathey's 0.11%.
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 Kathey is used
Across 1910–2025, Kathey was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 137,609 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 2Arkansas1 in 50,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 4Texas1 in 50,000
- 5Alabama1 in 100,000
- 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Florida1 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. Kathey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kathey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kathey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kathey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.