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Kathi

Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Katherine

Kathi has been given to 10,109 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 1958, with 824 recorded.

Babies named Kathi, 2001

1 in 748,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kathi: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kathi means

Kathi belongs to the name family reached through Kathi → Katherine → Catherine. Its meaning is “each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kathi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kathy, Katherine and Catherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,109 girls were recorded with the name Kathi between 1938 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 824 in 1958; its best national rank was #311 in 1954.

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 Kathi?

Kathi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 360,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kathi 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kathi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kathis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kathi was born before 1959 — so the typical Kathi is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
48.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
9,289
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (4,863).

Is Kathi 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (824)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#311
1954

Spellings of Kathi

Kathi is not the most common spelling — Kathy is, with 28.8% against Kathi's 0.87%.

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 Kathi is used

Across 1910–2025, Kathi was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 19,613 across all states with data. It was least common in South Dakota (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 7,692
  2. 2Washington1 in 7,692
  3. 3Indiana1 in 11,111
  4. 4Ohio1 in 11,111
  5. 5Iowa1 in 12,500
  6. 6California1 in 14,286
  7. 7Kansas1 in 14,286
  8. 8Maine1 in 14,286

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

Kathi around the world

Where Kathi 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 Australia
    1968–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kathi

People whose public names include Kathi, 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.

Kathi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kathi. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kathy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kathi 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
#311
1954
Peak year
1958
824 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
10,109
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kathi

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

KatiaKatyaKattieKatlynKatyKatinaKateriKathlynKattyKatarinaKatjaKatalinaKathieKaterinaKatanaKatlinKatherynKathiaKataraKathrineKateyKatiKatelinKate

Names with a curve like Kathi

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

DebbyLuanneGaylaVickeyLuannDeniceGeralynRoxannPamalaSuzanDebbraDebrah

Sibling names for Kathi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Kathi

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