Feminine dossier · first seen 1910

Kathy

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

Endangered Down 99.7% from peak

Peak era

1958

Peak rank proxy

23,940

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1910Peak 19582024

Peak year

1958

Decline from peak

99.7%

2024

All-time

334,084

Kathy 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 23,940 girls were named Kathy.

In 2024, only 64 girls were given the name.

Down 99.7% from its peak.

All told, about 334,084 Americans have been named Kathy and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1910.

Rarity scoreVery uncommon

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.7% from peak

195823,940 girls named Kathy

202464 girls named Kathy

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