How rare is the name Kitty?

7,484 people in the United States have the first name Kitty, about 1 in 40,357. It ranks #2,992 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KITTY

#2,992

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,484
About
1 in 40,357
This common or more
81.4%
Who bears it

Of the 7,484 people named Kitty, 72.8% reported their origin as White, 15.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 4.9% as Black. 99.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kitty peaked in 1947, when 358 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802024
Peak year
1947
Births that year
358
In 2024
6 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,657 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Kitty by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #803. The largest share of babies named Kitty, 41.3%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1880s#803220
1890s#840302
1900s#955343
1910s#1,253759
1920s#1,2681,109
1930s#1,1171,205
1940s#9242,235
1950s#1,0172,553
1960s#1,3991,575
1970s#2,633602
1980s#5,081279
1990s#7,906207
2000s#12,814143
2010s#16,468103
2020s#26,00922
Before 19014.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–2716.6%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.5%
Baby boom 1946–6441.3%
Generation X 1965–809.7%
Millennials 1981–963.2%
Generation Z 1997–122.1%
2013 and later0.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kitty is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kitty has been most common in West Virginia (4.3×), Virginia (3.2×), and Kentucky (2.2×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.47×).

7,092 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.

Exactly as common as Kitty

1 other first name also has 7,484 people.

#2,992 Priscila · 7,484

Either side of Kitty

#2,990 Queen · 7,504#2,991 Anil · 7,485#2,992 Priscila · 7,484#2,994 Cordell · 7,482

Spelled almost the same

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

#18,671 Kitt · 575#29,846 Kitti · 295

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