Across the world, Katip (حاجي 
, Katip 
, กาติ๊บ) is quite a common principally male, but very seldom female forename. The first name Katip is habitual in Saudi Arabia, where it is quite a rare principally boy's, but scarcely female name, Iraq, and Afghanistan, where it is quite a rare boy's name. Likewise, Katip is the last name as well as the forename.