Kate
The girl's name Kate has been in the national records since 1880, with 86,076 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 520th. About 70,000 Kates are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 86,076
- Estimated living today
- 70,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 136th
- Rank in 2025
- 520th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 85,987 / 89
How old the living Kates are
born that year still alive today
Of the 86,076 babies given the name since 1880, about 70,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 23,000 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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 Kates
- Kate Winslet (born 1975)English actress
- Kate Hudson (born 1979)American actress and singer
- Kate Beckinsale (born 1973)English actress
- Kate Bush (born 1958)English singer, pianist and songwriter
- Kate Moss (born 1974)English model and businesswoman
- Kate Upton (born 1992)American model and actress
- Kate Bosworth (born 1983)American actress
- Kate Mara (born 1983)American actress
People named Kate with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kate is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kate is most concentrated in Utah (3.6×), New Hampshire (2.0×), Connecticut (1.7×), Massachusetts (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Kate peaked:
Kate elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Kate | 10,307 | 59th |
| Ireland girls | Kate | 10,278 | 10th |
| New Zealand girls | Kate | 5,782 | 17th |
| Scotland girls | Kate | 1,911 | 65th |
| Norway girls | Kate | 1,259 | 103rd |
| France girls | Kate | 955 | 936th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kate | 810 | 49th |
| Italy girls | Kate | 414 | — |
| Belgium girls | Kate | 389 | 388th |
| Switzerland girls | Kate | 175 | 520th |
| Poland girls | Kate | 46 birth registrations | 350th |
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.
Kate: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Kate | 96 | 0.008% | 502nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Kate | 57 | 0.013% | 243rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Kate | 22 | 0.034% | 86th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Kate is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Kate: rank by region
In 2024, Kate was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Kate | 839 | 5 |
In 2021, Kate was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Kate | 8 | 1 |
In 2017, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Kate appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (245th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kate by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 8 | 420th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Kate among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Kate +1 spelling | 93 | 144 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Kate lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 315 women called Kate were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Kate | 9 | 0.052 | 1,303 |
| Balears, Illes | Kate | 17 | 0.027 | 1,987 |
| Málaga | Kate | 25 | 0.027 | 1,738 |
| Girona | Kate | 11 | 0.027 | 1,917 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Kate | 27 | 0.026 | 2,038 |
| Navarra | Kate | 8 | 0.023 | 2,141 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Kate against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.