Feminine dossier · first seen 1918

Cathy

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Cathy
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.8% from peak

Peak era

1958

Peak rank proxy

10,942

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1918Peak 19582024

Peak year

1958

Decline from peak

99.8%

2024

All-time

170,291

Cathy once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1958, when 10,942 girls were named Cathy.

In 2024, only 20 girls were given the name.

Down 99.8% from its peak.

All told, about 170,291 Americans have been named Cathy and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1918.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.8% from peak

195810,942 girls named Cathy

202420 girls named Cathy

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