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Cathy
Pronounced /ˈkæθi/
Rank in 2024
#6,116
Born in 2024
20
Peak year
1958 · #34
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 20 girls were named Cathy, about 1 in every 80,659.
- It peaked in 1958 with 10,942 babies, ranked #34.
- It first shows up in the records in 1918.
- 170,291 girls have been named Cathy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Cathy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 3.7Boomers1946–64
- 1.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 97 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 3,712 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Boomers: 131,476 babies, 3.67 per 1,000. Gen X: 28,827 babies, 1.13 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,287 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,444 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 448 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkæθi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Cathy, CC BY-SA 4.0.