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Cathie

Cathie reached its high-water mark in 1958 at number 597, and has been recorded 5,586 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1998. About 4,300 Cathies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cathie

By the numbers

Total US births
5,586
Estimated living today
4,300
Median age today
69
Peak year
1958
Best rank
597th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1926

How old the living Cathies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,586 babies given the name since 1926, about 4,300 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 3,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Cathies

People named Cathie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Cathie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cathie is most concentrated in Washington (2.2×), Ohio (2.0×), Oregon (2.0×), Iowa (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1958

The most popular girls’ names the year Cathie peaked:

All the names of 1958

Cathie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Cathie 2,200 233rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Cathie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.