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Ketty

Girls' name

Pet form of Katherine

Ketty has been given to 129 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 1960, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Ketty, 2001

1 in 748,000

Ketty over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ketty: meaning, origin, and history

Pet form of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ketty means

Ketty is a pet form of Katherine.

Origin, language, and formation

Ketty is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 129 girls were recorded with the name Ketty between 1953 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1960; its best national rank was #4,608 in 1960.

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 Ketty?

Ketty 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 Ketty 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 Ketty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kettys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ketty was born before 1974 — so the typical Ketty is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
129
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Ketty 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 1960 (9)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,608
1960

Spellings of Ketty

Ketty is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 46.1% against Ketty'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.

Where Ketty is used

Across 1910–2025, Ketty was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,136,945 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Ketty has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ketty around the world

Where Ketty 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
    1900–2024
    #4,850
    in 2024

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

Ketty 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
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Best rank ever
#4,608
1960
Peak year
1960
9 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
129
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ketty

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

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Sibling names for Ketty

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 Ketty

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