How Many People Are Named Kathi?

8,382

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

About 1 in 40,776 people in the US has this name

Based on 10,109 babies named Kathi in Social Security records from 1938 to 2001, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,756

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,534

See the top 100

Peak Year

1958

824 births

Trend

2001

Last year given

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: KATH-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Diminutive of KATHERINE.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Kathi in English. Counting Kathi and these spellings together, about 436,437 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 Kathi in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Kathi alive today is about 65 years old, and 80% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 61 and 70 in 2025.

Under 30 17
0.2%
30 to 59 1,656
19.8%
60 and over 6,710
80%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Kathi first appears in the records in 1938 and was given most often in 1958, to 824 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2001.

Babies given the name each year, 1938 to 2001

🏆 Rank History

Kathi has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #311, in 1954.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#311 (1954)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#403 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Kathi were born in California than in any other state: about 849 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kathi was given 2.7 times as often in Oregon, 2.6 times in Washington and 1.6 times in Indiana.

California 849
New York 580
Ohio 531
Pennsylvania 503
Illinois 400
Texas 344
Michigan 318
Indiana 277
Washington 256
New Jersey 246
Wisconsin 184
Minnesota 176
Missouri 167
Florida 156
Oregon 150
Iowa 147
Massachusetts 134
Georgia 104
Kansas 96
Virginia 76
Colorado 75
Kentucky 75
Oklahoma 74
West Virginia 72
Tennessee 70
North Carolina 68
Maryland 64
Connecticut 58
Alabama 48
Louisiana 45
Maine 41
Nebraska 32
Arizona 29
New Hampshire 23
Rhode Island 22
Mississippi 22
Utah 21
New Mexico 16
South Carolina 16
District of Columbia 14
Arkansas 12
Montana 8
Idaho 7
Delaware 5
Vermont 4
South Dakota 4
Wyoming 4

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