Käte
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Katharina
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
Käte is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 36K
- SESweden1 in 111K
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 Käte itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaete in US United States.
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)a diminutive of the female given name Katharina
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Käte 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | Käte | 37 |
| DK Denmark | 165 | 1 in 36K | 165 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 92 | 1 in 111K | 92 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Kaete | 61 |
| BR Brazil | 28as Kaete | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 20 | 1 in 864K | 20 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 7 | 1 in 796K | 43 | — | 1 |
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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Käte is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In urj-pro, hand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Käte Dunckerb. 1871DEpolitician (1871-1953)
- Käte Stresemannb. 1883DEGerman socialite (1883–1970)
- Käte Frankenthalb. 1889DEGerman-American physician and politician (1889-1976)
- Käte Hamburgerb. 1896DEGerman literary scholar and philosopher (1896–1992)
- Käte Alvingb. 1896DEGerman actress (1896-1974)
- Käte Hogeb. 1904DEGerman politician (1904-1984)
- Maria Goeppert-Mayerb. 1906USnot in their usual nameGerman-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
- Käte Strobelb. 1907DEGerman politician (1907–1996)
- Käte Staudingerb. 1908DEGerman politician
- Käte Jaenickeb. 1923DEGerman actress (1923-2002)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 165 | #1,133 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 92 | #9,026 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 85 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 85 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 82 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 79 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 78 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 76 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 74 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 72 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 71 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 69 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Käte mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Katharina Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Käte a male or female name?
- Käte is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Denmark (Danmarks Statistik).
- In which country does Käte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Käte in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled käte.
- How common is the name Käte?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 165 people named Käte, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Käte?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A4teThe 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, “Käte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.