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Kittie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Katherine

Kittie has been given to 2,467 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1889, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Kittie, 1988

1 in 616,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kittie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Katherine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kittie means

Kittie is a diminutive of Katherine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kittie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɪt.i/ for Kittie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kittie → Katherine → Catherine. The family’s proposed meaning is “each of the two”, recorded in English with the source elements hekáteros.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,467 girls were recorded with the name Kittie between 1880 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1889; its best national rank was #252 in 1880.

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 Kittie?

Kittie 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 616,000
6 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,773 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kittie 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 1988 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 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kittie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kitties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kittie was born before 1918 — so the typical Kittie is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1880s
17.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
496
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1880s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (434).

Is Kittie 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 1889 (63)
Years since peak
136
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#252
1880

Spellings of Kittie

Kittie is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 31.9% against Kittie's 0.33%.

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 Kittie is used

Across 1910–2025, Kittie was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 319,828 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Mississippi1 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. Kittie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kittie around the world

Where Kittie 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
    2000–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Kittie

People whose public names include Kittie, 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.

Kittie in other languages

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

Kitty

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

Kittie 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
#252
1880
Peak year
1889
63 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
2,467
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kittie

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

KitanaJettieKitziaMartieKattieEttieKitMistieDottieLettieMertieCatieBertieVertieScottieZettieMyrtieMettieCristieMittieBirtieMontieDustieKitty

Names with a curve like Kittie

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

RillaVinnieLidaTennieMetaTildaBellRettaMellieMyrtieBessLouie

Sibling names for Kittie

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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