Kathlee
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kathlee has been given to 120 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 1963, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Kathlee, 1988
1 in 739,000
Kathlee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kathlee?
Kathlee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 739,000
- 5 of 3,694,212 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 356,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 512,128 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kathlee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kathlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kathlees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kathlee was born before 1956 — so the typical Kathlee is around 69 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 40.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 93
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (48).
Is Kathlee 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 1963 (8)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kathlee
Kathlee is not the most common spelling — Kathleen is, with 70.8% against Kathlee'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.
Kathlee around the world
Where Kathlee 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 Australia1957–1957#581in 1957
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kathlee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kathlee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kathlee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.