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Kattie

#12,528 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kattie has been given to 5,592 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,528 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Kattie, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kattie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kattie means

Kattie is a given name.

The naming story behind Kattie

Wikidata records Kattie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q130344394, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,592 girls were recorded with the name Kattie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 95 in 1924; its best national rank was #510 in 1900.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,373 in 2015 to #12,528 in 2025.

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.

How common is Kattie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,528
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kattie 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kattie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kattie was born before 1941 — so the typical Kattie is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,352
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.0% of all recorded uses (785).

Is Kattie 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,155
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.4%
Peak was 1924 (95)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#510
1900

Spellings of Kattie

Kattie is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 24.6% against Kattie's 0.57%.

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 Kattie is used

Across 1910–2025, Kattie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,381 girls, against 1 in 47,591 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

042 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,381
  2. 2Alabama1 in 10,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 50,000

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

Kattie around the world

Where Kattie 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.

  • France
    1969–1970
    #2,351
    in 1970
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #2,118
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kattie in other languages

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

KateeKatieKathie

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

Kattie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,528
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#510
1900
Peak year
1924
95 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,592
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Kattie

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

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Names with a curve like Kattie

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

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Sibling names for Kattie

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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