Katy

Where Katy comes from

The dictionaries list Katy as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Katherine, variant of Katie — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1981
    Katy Mixon born
    American actress and model
  3. 1987
    Peak, #351
    674 babies named Katy — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1993
    Katy Marchant born
    British cyclist
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #654.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Katherine, variant of Katie.
Namesakes
  • Katy Marchant · British cyclist, born 1993
  • Katy Mixon · American actress and model, born 1981
  • Katy O'Brian · American actress, writer and martial artist, born 1989
  • Katy Bødtger · Danish singer, 1932–2017
  • Katy Topuria · Georgian singer, born 1986

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.