Cathey

Last seen for girls in 1983 at #10,275

Peak · girls
1953 · 157 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,216
since 1939

Cathey over time

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Rank among girls' names. Cathey has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201952peak #724, 1953girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1983#10,2755
1982#10,5175
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1980#10,3925
1979#10,2105
1978
1977#7,5677
1976#7,2967
1975#5,51610
1974#6,2588
1973#6,0808
1972#3,54317
1971#3,78916
1970#2,45030
1969#2,51527
1968#2,63023
1967#2,43225
1966#2,24928
1965#1,54752
1964#1,54854
1963#1,47857
1962#1,38364
1961#1,38765
1960#1,19982
1959#1,09995
1958#1,11290
1957#989110
1956#929118
1955#804144
1954#969100
1953#724157
1952#733146
1951#760134
1950#858106
1949#89597
1948#97180
1947#1,12763
1946#1,20851
1945#1,40233
1944#1,91620
1943#1,62527
1942#1,76023
1941#2,09616
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1939#3,7826
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First appearance
1939

The first year at least five girls were named Cathey! It came in at #3,782, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1940, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Cathey
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1983
  • Biggest jump: 165 spots in 1955 (#969#804)
  • Biggest drop: 245 spots in 1954 (#724#969)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1939
  • Peaked 1953 at #724 (157 births)
  • Births halved by 1961, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1948–1957
Share of babies · girls
1 in 11,983
  • Highest: 1 in 11,983 girls born in 1953 were named Cathey (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 334,122 girls born in 1983 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 54.2% of all girls named Cathey (1,200) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s6#3,782 (1939)#3,782
1940s410#895 (1949)#1,444
1950s1,200#724 (1953)#898
1960s477#1,199 (1960)#1,837
1970s108#2,450 (1970)#5,857
1980s15#10,275 (1983)#10,395

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Cathey in 1952

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#733
146 births · 1 in 12,701 girls

Top girls' names in 1952

  1. #1Linda67,082
  2. #2Mary65,629
  3. #3Patricia53,101
  4. #4Deborah49,811
  5. #5Susan41,348
  6. #6Barbara39,864
  7. #7Nancy31,739
  8. #8Karen28,956
  9. #9Debra26,832
  10. #10Sandra26,097
  11. #733Cathey146
More about 1952

girls

1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 12,701 of them was named Cathey, which outranked 88.5% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cathey
  1. #729Louisa148
  2. #729Melodie148
  3. #732Bonny147
  4. #733Cathey146
  5. #733Madeleine146
  6. #733Treva146
  7. #736Corliss145
  8. #736Virgie145
  9. #736William145

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1951
Risers
  1. 2,501Pandora#3,284#783
  2. 368Lise#1,314#946
  3. 353Vanessa#656#303
  4. 334Dorinda#1,170#836
  5. 332Mitzi#928#596
Fallers
  1. 380Rhona#988#1,368
  2. 342Sharleen#765#1,107
  3. 270Enid#908#1,178
  4. 237Allyn#988#1,225
  5. 230Sheron#908#1,138

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1952