How rare is the name Kathi?

8,917 people in the United States have the first name Kathi, about 1 in 33,871. It ranks #2,653 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KATHI

#2,653

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,917
About
1 in 33,871
This common or more
80.5%
Who bears it

Of the 8,917 people named Kathi, 91.7% reported their origin as White, 3.1% as Black and 2.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kathi peaked in 1958, when 824 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19382001
Peak year
1958
Births that year
824
In 2001
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,109 babies have been given the name since 1938. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Kathi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #740. The largest share of babies named Kathi, 76.8%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1930s#9,55415
1940s#1,579805
1950s#7404,863
1960s#9623,319
1970s#2,171830
1980s#6,124213
1990s#17,47159
2000s#47,6555
Silent Generation 1928–452.9%
Baby boom 1946–6476.8%
Generation X 1965–8017.9%
Millennials 1981–962.2%
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 Kathi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kathi has been most common in Oregon (2.5×), Washington (2.4×), and Indiana (1.7×), and least common in North Carolina (0.35×).

8,009 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 Kathi

#2,651 Lacie · 8,921#2,651 Reyes · 8,921#2,654 Braylen · 8,916#2,655 Dimitri · 8,895

Spelled almost the same

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

#181 Kathy · 288,053#2,121 Kathie · 12,647#3,891 Kati · 5,037#7,068 Kathia · 2,191#10,021 Kathe · 1,352#24,775 Katha · 387#28,373 Kath · 317#35,884 Katti · 223

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