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Kati

Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Katie

Kati has been given to 4,772 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1986, with 261 recorded.

Babies named Kati, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kati: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Katie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kati means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kati is used in English, Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katie, Katherine, Katariina, Katalin and Catherine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Kati is pronounced /ˈkɑti/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,772 girls were recorded with the name Kati between 1953 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 261 in 1986; its best national rank was #673 in 1984.

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 Kati?

Kati had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kati 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kati. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kati was born before 1988 — so the typical Kati is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
43.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,772
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 43.9% of all recorded uses (2,094).

Is Kati 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 1986 (261)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#673
1984

Spellings of Kati

Kati is not the most common spelling — Kathy is, with 19.6% against Kati's 0.28%.

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 Kati is used

Across 1910–2025, Kati was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 55,506 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 25,000
  2. 2Iowa1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4Missouri1 in 33,333
  5. 5Ohio1 in 33,333
  6. 6Oregon1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Washington1 in 33,333

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

Kati around the world

Where Kati 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1988–1988
    #577
    in 1988
  • France
    1959–1985
    #3,463
    in 1985
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #2,869
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1970–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kati

People whose public names include Kati, 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.

Kati in other languages

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

CatyKatyCathyKatieCathieKatalin

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

Kati 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
#673
1984
Peak year
1986
261 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,772
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kati

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

KatiaKatyaKatyKattieKateriKattyKathlynKatjaKatanaKathiaKataraKateyKathiKatlynKatlinKateKataleyaKathyaKatherinKatheKaterinaKatalinaKatinaKatarina

Names with a curve like Kati

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

TarahJesicaCodyCasieLinseyLynseySamathaShanteCassondraKrystinaLyndsayJoshua

Sibling names for Kati

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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