Càthy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Càthy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ° Pet form of }\Catherine and Catharine.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 803(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 594as Kathy
- CACanada≈1 in 643as Kathy
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Càthy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #179 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 594 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 803 (inferred from the name graph)
288,053 named Kathy, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kathy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more and Cathy in HK Hong Kong.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)° Pet form of }\Catherine and Catharine.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Càthy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #76 | 288,053as Kathy | 1 in 1.2K | 288K | Kathy | 594 |
| GB United Kingdom | #134 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 988 | 36 | Kathy | 269 |
| CA Canada | #49 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 643 | 14 | Kathy | 286 |
| IT Italy | #195 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Kathy | 54 |
| FR France | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 27K | — | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 10,946as Kati | 1 in 509 | 12K | — | 17 |
| HK Hong Kong | #127 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 803 | — | Cathy | 71 |
| IE Ireland | #53 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 594 | 192 | Kathy | 102 |
| SG Singapore | #32 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 720 | — | Kathy | 89 |
| NZ New Zealand | #77 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 678 | 11 | Kathy | 120 |
288,053 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Càthy mean, and where does it come from?
- ° Pet form of }\Catherine and Catharine. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 1 other source.
- Is Càthy a male or female name?
- Càthy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Càthy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 288 thousand people named Kathy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Càthy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 288,053 people named Kathy in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Càthy compared with other names?
- In the United States, Càthy is the 76th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A0thyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Càthy” — the 76th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.