as a First Name
Pet form of Katherine and of Kathleen, occasionally used as an independent given name.
| 114th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 480,567
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Kathy per capita
- 1958
- marked the height of its popularity
99.99%
0.01%
43%
55+
55+
54%
30-54
30-54
2%
13-29
13-29
1%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
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