Cate
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A delicacy or item of food
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/keɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cate is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Australia it is the 64th most common given name.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 467as Kate(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.2Kas Kate
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.3Kas Kate
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 Cate 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 587 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 467 (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 named Kate, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est., as Kate
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kate in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
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 delicacy or item of food.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cate 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Kate | 57 |
| NG Nigeria | #411 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Kate | 86 |
| US United States | #506 | 86,820as Kate | 1 in 3.8K | 87K | Kate | 587 |
| AU Australia | #64 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 467 | 93 | Kate | 297 |
| GB United Kingdom | #199 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 9 | Kate | 347 |
| NZ New Zealand | #132 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 17 | Kate | 178 |
| IE Ireland | #160 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 204 | Kate | 154 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1,560as Kate | 1 in 1.2K | 1.6K | Kate | 35 |
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; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Cate is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, smack; slap
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Caterina
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Caterina
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Asturian, first/third-person singular present subjunctive of catar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of catus
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)
- George W. Cateb. 1825USAmerican politician (1825–1905)
- William H. Cateb. 1839USArkansas politician (1839-1899)
- John S. Cateb. 1839USAmerican politician
- Anna Cate Doleb. 1841USartist and temperance movement advocate (1841-1918)
- William W. Cateb. 1870USAmerican politician
- Jasper ten Cateb. 1887RUDurch physiologist and university teacher
- Jamie H. D. Cateb. 1968USresearcher
- Troy Cateb. 1980USAmerican baseball player
- Ana Cateb. 1991USNicaraguan association football player
- Field Cateb. 1997USactor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.8K | #6,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #6,970 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 are other forms of the name Cate?
- In the etymology graph, Cato, Caja and Kaarina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Cate?
- In the United States, the national register counted 86,820 people named Kate in 2020, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Cate compared with other names?
- In Australia, Cate is the 64th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Cate mean, and where does it come from?
- A delicacy or item of food. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cate?
- A machine transcription gives /keɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cate have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 224 thousand people named Kate in China, more than in any other country we hold.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cateThe 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, “Cate” — the 64th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.