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Katty

#16,083 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Katherine

Katty has been given to 1,004 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #16,083 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Katty, 2025

1 in 663,000

Katty over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katty: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katty means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Katty is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine and Catherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,004 girls were recorded with the name Katty between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,770 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,669 in 2020 to #16,083 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,346 in 2015 to #16,083 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Katty?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,083
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katty 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kattys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katty was born before 2000 — so the typical Katty is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
983
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2000s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (230).

Is Katty 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
−5,408
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,414
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,737
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.7%
Peak was 2000 (34)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,770
2000

Spellings of Katty

Katty is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 42.4% against Katty's 0.04%.

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 Katty is used

Across 1910–2025, Katty was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 173,617 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Katty has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katty around the world

Where Katty 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
    1946–2017
    #5,383
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1992–1993
    #2,149
    in 1993

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.

Katty by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,083
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,414
Best rank ever
#3,770
2000
Peak year
2000
34 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,004
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Katty

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

KatjaKathyaKataraKathiaKatyaKatanaKatheKaterinKatianaMattyKateriKateeDottyKatiaYittyKatyeKatrinKateyKathaEttyKatrielKatoriKatheyKattie

Sibling names for Katty

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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