How Many People Are Named Cate?
people named Cate are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 192,880 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,789 babies named Cate in Social Security records from 1980 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
152 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of KATE. A famous bearer is Australian actress Cate Blanchett (1975-).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Cate in English. Counting Cate and these spellings together, about 71,956 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Cate in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cate alive today is about 17 years old, and 95% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 21 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cate first appears in the records in 1980 and was given most often in 2008, to 152 babies. In 2025, 11 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1980 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Cate has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,529, in 2008. In 2025 it ranked #8,976.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #8,976 |
| Best rank | #1,529 (2008) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,036 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cate alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cate were born in California than in any other state: about 178 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cate was given 2.3 times as often in Texas, 1.9 times in California and 1.9 times in New York.
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