How rare is the name Cathie?

4,844 people in the United States have the first name Cathie, about 1 in 62,352. It ranks #4,010 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CATHIE

#4,010

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,844
About
1 in 62,352
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,844 people named Cathie, 89.2% reported their origin as White, 4.5% as Black and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Cathie peaked in 1958, when 277 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19261998
Peak year
1958
Births that year
277
In 1998
6 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,586 babies have been given the name since 1926. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Cathie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #1,027. The largest share of babies named Cathie, 75.3%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1920s#12,17210
1930s#6,22657
1940s#1,1531,414
1950s#1,0272,504
1960s#1,6601,163
1970s#3,713345
1980s#11,82876
1990s#28,41217
Greatest Generation 1901–270.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4510.5%
Baby boom 1946–6475.3%
Generation X 1965–8012.7%
Millennials 1981–961.2%
Generation Z 1997–120.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Cathie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cathie has been most common in Washington (2.2×), Ohio (2×), and Oregon (2×), and least common in Alabama (0.46×).

3,610 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Cathie

#4,008 Mordechai · 4,847#4,009 Zavier · 4,846#4,011 Felisha · 4,843#4,012 Laine · 4,841

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cathie, most common first.

#6,780 Cathi · 2,326#7,966 Catie · 1,852#28,616 Cathia · 313#28,942 Cathe · 308#48,024 Cathye · 134

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