Cathie

Where Cathie comes from

Cathie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1926
    First appearance
    #4,851 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1951
    Peak, #505
    266 babies named Cathie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1954
    Cathie Craigie born
    British politician
  4. 1955
    Cathie Martin born
    British botanist
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #940.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cathie Martin · British botanist, born 1955
  • Cathie Craigie · British politician, born 1954
  • Cathie Pilkington · British sculptor, born 1968
  • Cathie Taylor · American singer, born 1944
  • Cathie Dunsford · New Zealand fiction writer, poet, and anthologist, born 1953

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.