Katie

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Katie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 867(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 1K
  • IEIreland≈1 in 1.1K

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 Katie 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈350,000 people, est.

#619 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
606 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 867 (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KatieLatin(measured from records)
קייטיHebrew(measured from records)
เคทThai(measured from records)
케이티Hangul(measured from records)
ՔեթիArmenian(measured from records)
ΚειτιGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kätÿ in EC Ecuador and Katy in CN China.

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 Catherine or any of its variant spellings.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Katie 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.

Where Katie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈350,000 est.≈1 in 4K—Katy53
US United States#272215,0391 in 1.5K215KKatie606
GB United Kingdom#156≈76,000 est.≈1 in 86736Katie356
AU Australia#198≈25,000 est.≈1 in 1K93Katie265
CA Canada#290≈20,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K9Katie281
EC Ecuador—12,251as Katty1 in 1.4K12KKätÿ28
IE Ireland#133≈4,900 est.≈1 in 1.1K204Katie145
LV Latvia—1,560as Kate1 in 1.2K1.6K—11

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); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Katie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Katiê, Kátie, Kãtiê, Katíe, Kátíê

  • Polish given name66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Kathy, Cathy, Katy, Kathie, Кэти

  • Chinese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, China

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Kàtie

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Katie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Variant spelling of Katy.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • English: pet form of KATE , with the hypocoristic suffix - ie . Variant: Katy. Cognate: Scottish Gaelic: Ceiteag .

    as a word

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)

1940196019802000Katie Couric, b. 1957Katie Finneran, b. 1971Katie Aselton, b. 1978Katie McGrath, b. 1983Katie Melua, b. 1984Katie Cassidy, b. 1986Katie Leung, b. 1987Katie Findlay, b. 1990Katie Ledecky, b. 1997Katie Douglas, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 76 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Katie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020215K#260
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025447—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020284#260
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2019192#27
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)200983#92
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)201151—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202447—
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)202536#52
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)202434#131
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20249#474
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)20167—
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)20176—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 are other forms of the name Katie?
In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Tina are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kathy and Kathryn.
What does the name Katie mean, and where does it come from?
A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Katie a male or female name?
Katie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Katie have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 345 thousand people named Katie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katy.
How common is the name Katie?
In the United States, the national register counted 215,039 people named Katie in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Katie compared with other names?
In Ireland, Katie is the 133rd most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.

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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/katie

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Katie” — the 133rd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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