Kathi

Where Kathi comes from

Kathi 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. 1938
    First appearance
    #4,342 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #311
    740 babies named Kathi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #507.
  4. 1969
    Kathi Wilcox born
    American musician
  5. 1972
    Kathi Schwaab born
    German biathlete
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Kathi Schwaab · German biathlete, born 1972
  • Kathi Wilcox · American musician, born 1969
  • Kathi Appelt · American children's writer and writing teacher, born 1954
  • Kathi McDonald · American singer, 1948–2012
  • Kathi Lynn Austin · American expert on arms trafficking

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.