How Many People Are Named Katey?

2,295

people named Katey are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 148,925 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,359 babies named Katey in Social Security records from 1949 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#6,165

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,441

See the top 100

Peak Year

1992

105 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: KAY-tee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Diminutive of KATE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Katey in English. Counting Katey and these spellings together, about 216,654 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

AikaterineKatalinKattalinKatsiarynaKatarinKatellEkaterinaKaterinaCaterinaInaKataKatarinaKateKaticaTina

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Katey in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Katey alive today is about 32 years old, and 59% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 24 and 40 in 2025.

Under 30 883
38.5%
30 to 59 1,358
59.2%
60 and over 53
2.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Katey first appears in the records in 1949 and was given most often in 1992, to 105 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1949 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Katey has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,464, in 1985.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#1,464 (1985)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,888 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Katey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Katey were born in California than in any other state: about 152 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Katey was given 2.8 times as often in Pennsylvania, 2.1 times in California and 1.7 times in Texas.

California 152
Texas 73
Pennsylvania 59
Ohio 47
Florida 37
New York 35
Washington 28
Michigan 23
Illinois 12
Georgia 7
Missouri 6
Indiana 5
Oklahoma 5

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