Cath
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cath is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Singapore it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Gata.
- CACanada1 in 441◐
- IEIreland1 in 562
- SGSingapore1 in 574
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈305K ●
- #343 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 538 ●
- 1 in 509 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
7.0M records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kathy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 13 more, Cathy in PH Philippines, ES Spain, NL Netherlands and 4 more, Cassie in IN India, NZ New Zealand, MY Malaysia and Kati in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Gata
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #120 | 309,136 | 300K rec. | — | 36 | Kathy | 205 |
| US United States | #75 | 287,828 | 5.8M rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 288K | Kathy | 538 |
| CA Canada | #58 | 188,483 | 180K rec. | — | 14 | Kathy | 221 |
| AU Australia | #118 | 185,552 | 171K rec. | — | 83 | Kathy | 222 |
| IT Italy | #229 | 39,871 | 40K rec. | — | 1 | Kathy | 52 |
| PH Philippines | #709 | 29,861 | 25K rec. | — | — | Cathy | 101 |
| DE Germany | #637 | 22,730 | 22K rec. | — | 1 | Kathy | 114 |
| CN China | — | 18,840 | 16K rec. | — | — | Kathy | 87 |
| SG Singapore | #17 | 18,708 | 19K rec. | — | — | Kathy | 85 |
| IE Ireland | #81 | 16,633 | 17K rec. | — | 192 | Kathy | 95 |
| RU Russia | — | 11,051 | 17K rec. | — | listed | Kathy | 38 |
| FI Finland | — | 10,946△ | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 509 | 12K | Kati | 18 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English24K71%
- French3.9K12%
- Spanish1.3K4%
- German4871%
- 3231%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 23,742 | 71% |
| French | 3,864 | 12% |
| Spanish | 1,310 | 4% |
| German | 487 | 1% |
| 323 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Cath 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.
In sga, battle, fight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, battle
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●
- Cath Wallaceb. 1952NZenvironmental activist
- Cath Staincliffeb. 1956GBBritish screenwriter
- Cath Jacksonb. 1957GBBritish lesbian cartoonist (born 1957)
- Catherine Swinnertonb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameRoad racing cyclist
- Cath Carrollb. 1960GBBritish musician and journalist
- Cath Bishopb. 1971GBBritish rower
- Cath Crowleyb. 1971AUAustralian novelist
- Cath Luytenb. 1977BEBelgian television presenter
- Cath Wongb. 1992HKHong Kong singer-songwriter
- Cath CoffeyGBBritish musician
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●
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Cath?
- We estimate roughly 305 thousand people bear Cath (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Cath have the most bearers?
- Cath is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled kathy.
- How common is Cath compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Cath is the 120th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- Is Cath a male or female name?
- Cath 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.
- What does the name Cath mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gata
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Cath” — the 120th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.