Kathy Girl
How popular is Kathy?
#3,249 girl name in 2025
48 baby girls were named Kathy in the US in 2025, making it the 3249th most popular girl name.
Kathy popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,249 for girls (▼ 555 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 48 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-62% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,685 in 2015, #2,170 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1958 (23,938 girls) |
| Highest rank | #14 in 1958 |
| First recorded | 1910 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Kathy counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Kathy family of names ranked #2,143 for girls in 2025 (#1,758 the year before), with 60 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kathy | 48 | 80% |
| Cathy | 12 | 20% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Kathy is most popular
Babies named Kathy per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (67 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Michigan: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (24 girls)
Kathy by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 57 | #2,398 |
| 1920s | 198 | #1,256 |
| 1930s | 1,254 | #328 |
| 1940s | 34,766 | #42 |
| 1950s | 157,930 | #14 |
| 1960s | 101,127 | #21 |
| 1970s | 22,706 | #77 |
| 1980s | 6,977 | #255 |
| 1990s | 4,312 | #503 |
| 2000s | 3,021 | #652 |
| 2010s | 1,381 | #1,260 |
| 2020s | 402 | #2,170 |
Girl names about as popular as Kathy
Questions
- Is Kathy a boy or girl name?
- Kathy is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Kathy were girls.
- How popular is the name Kathy?
- 48 baby girls were named Kathy in the US in 2025, making it the 3249th most popular girl name.
- When was Kathy most popular?
- Kathy peaked in 1958, when 23,938 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #14 in 1958.
- How many people are named Kathy?
- 334,870 babies have been named Kathy in the US since 1880. We estimate about 279,581 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 67.
- Where is Kathy most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Kathy was most common in California, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.