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Katy

Pronounced /ˈkeɪti/

Rank in 2024
#2,467
Born in 2024
73
Peak year
1987 · #351
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
00.10.20.30.418801900192019401960198020002020
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 73 girls were named Katy, about 1 in every 22,098.
  • It peaked in 1987 with 674 babies, ranked #351.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 20,886 girls have been named Katy since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Katy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.3
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 952 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 1,071 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,086 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,557 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,128 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,542 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,356 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A diminutive of the female given name Katherine, variant of Katie.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈkeɪti/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Katy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyCooling

    Kate

    Rank
    #534
    Born '24
    569
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20072024
  • GirlBoyCooling

    Katie

    Rank
    #579
    Born '24
    518
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19862024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Katia

    Rank
    #1,851
    Born '24
    108
    Origin
    Russian
    1880peak 19962024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Kathy

    Rank
    #2,697
    Born '24
    64
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19582024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Katya

    Rank
    #2,776
    Born '24
    61
    Origin
    Russian
    1880peak 20012024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Cate

    Rank
    #5,102
    Born '24
    26
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20082024