Name Trends

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How popular is “Kathy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kathy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kathy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kathy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kathy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kathy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kathy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kathy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 100%
1916 8 0.000004136 8 100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 34 0.000014809 34 100%
1927 35 0.00001509 35 100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 100%
1929 35 0.000015966 35 100%
1930 29 0.000013044 29 100%
1931 40 0.000019008 40 100%
1932 58 0.000027471 58 100%
1933 45 0.000022506 45 100%
1934 79 0.000038039 79 100%
1935 99 0.000047371 99 100%
1936 136 0.000065461 136 100%
1937 157 0.000073686 157 100%
1938 246 0.000111183 246 100%
1939 365 0.00016565 365 100%
1940 604 0.000262302 604 100%
1941 947 0.000388684 947 100%
1942 1545 0.000565557 1537 8 99%
1943 2044 0.000724166 2033 11 99%
1944 2422 0.000900345 2417 5 100%
1945 2753 0.001037728 2753 100%
1946 4188 0.001310672 4179 9 100%
1947 5718 0.00158731 5697 21 99%
1948 6157 0.001783336 6148 9 100%
1949 8466 0.002429425 8451 15 100%
1950 9112 0.002600933 9090 22 100%
1951 10430 0.002831362 10406 24 100%
1952 12395 0.003263555 12369 26 100%
1953 13413 0.003480602 13400 13 100%
1954 14195 0.003565948 14175 20 100%
1955 15356 0.003824581 15324 32 100%
1956 17202 0.004172167 17177 25 100%
1957 20285 0.004827299 20235 50 100%
1958 23985 0.005802021 23940 45 100%
1959 21853 0.005255662 21814 39 100%
1960 18521 0.004458793 18479 42 100%
1961 16427 0.00396567 16384 43 99%
1962 14789 0.003664842 14757 32 100%
1963 12243 0.003093073 12216 27 100%
1964 10401 0.002675426 10377 24 100%
1965 7783 0.002146769 7762 21 99%
1966 6332 0.001821815 6319 13 100%
1967 5427 0.001598576 5407 20 99%
1968 4688 0.001387634 4676 12 99%
1969 4765 0.001371096 4751 14 99%
1970 4809 0.001333421 4797 12 100%
1971 3880 0.001130419 3863 17 99%
1972 3044 0.000968503 3032 12 99%
1973 2383 0.000789887 2371 12 99%
1974 1927 0.000633882 1920 7 99%
1975 1701 0.000563358 1689 12 99%
1976 1388 0.000457437 1382 6 99%
1977 1406 0.000442626 1406 100%
1978 1139 0.000358868 1134 5 99%
1979 1118 0.000336038 1113 5 99%
1980 1017 0.000295253 1010 7 99%
1981 956 0.000276351 956 100%
1982 886 0.000252568 879 7 98%
1983 770 0.000222329 765 5 99%
1984 675 0.000193479 670 5 99%
1985 617 0.000172872 617 100%
1986 572 0.000160806 572 100%
1987 517 0.000143388 517 100%
1988 527 0.000142624 522 5 98%
1989 469 0.000121994 469 100%
1990 477 0.000120684 477 100%
1991 472 0.000121173 472 100%
1992 474 0.000123397 474 100%
1993 444 0.000117763 444 100%
1994 455 0.000122389 455 100%
1995 409 0.000111683 409 100%
1996 445 0.000122012 445 100%
1997 389 0.000107288 389 100%
1998 386 0.000104942 386 100%
1999 361 0.00009773 361 100%
2000 379 0.000100267 379 100%
2001 343 0.000091628 343 100%
2002 362 0.000096836 362 100%
2003 308 0.000081003 308 100%
2004 283 0.000074066 283 100%
2005 286 0.000074385 286 100%
2006 293 0.000074061 293 100%
2007 294 0.000073543 294 100%
2008 268 0.000068182 268 100%
2009 204 0.000053401 204 100%
2010 190 0.000051411 190 100%
2011 171 0.00004675 171 100%
2012 176 0.000048122 176 100%
2013 139 0.000038127 139 100%
2014 142 0.000038312 142 100%
2015 126 0.000034046 126 100%
2016 159 0.00004334 159 100%
2017 111 0.000031039 111 100%
2018 91 0.000025882 91 100%
2019 76 0.000021896 76 100%
2020 83 0.000024846 83 100%
2021 72 0.000021252 72 100%
2022 75 0.000022169 75 100%
2023 60 0.00001812 60 100%
2024 64 0.000019228 64 100%