Katie

given name · English · Latin script

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

Katie is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Ireland it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland1 in 389◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 934
  • AUAustralia1 in 1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈239K ●

across 13 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
535 ●

2.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.2K ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

KatieLatin · English●2.2M records
קייטיHebrew · Hebrew●375 records
เคทThai · Thai●62 records
케이티Hangul · Korean●0 records
ΚειτιGreek · Greek●0 records
ՔեթիArmenian · Armenian●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Katy in FI Finland, CN China, IN India and Kate in TH Thailand.

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●

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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Katie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#159221,674181K rec.—36Katie271
US United States#276214,7551.8M rec.1 in 1.5K215KKatie535
AU Australia#200112,35287K rec.—93Katie253
CA Canada#29744,37240K rec.—9Katie214
IE Ireland#5023,9475.5K rec.—204Katie133
EC Ecuador—12,251△266 rec.1 in 1.4K12K—25
DE Germany—4,9599.4K rec.—1Katie110
IT Italy#9494,7486.6K rec.—17Katie71
NZ New Zealand#1454,5713.2K rec.—17Katie121
RU Russia—4,3065K rec.——Katie60
DK Denmark—2,413△279 rec.1 in 2.4K2.4KKatie42
BR Brazil—2,116△39 rec.1 in 100K2.1K—5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.2M84%
  • 95K4%
  • Spanish60K2%
  • Hebrew41K2%
  • French22K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,162,72684%
94,9084%
Spanish60,4522%
Hebrew41,4192%
French21,8831%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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 name120K records spelled Katie12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Katiê, Kátie, Kátíê, Katié, Katíe

  • Polish given name15K records spelled Katie115 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Russia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Kathy, Cathy, Katy, Кати, Kathie

  • Chinese given name12K records spelled Katie3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Kàtie

65 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●

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.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.3K · 1986

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Katie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880303
1881279
1882327
1883361
1884360
1885388
1886431
1887440
1888516
1889502
1890509
1891494
1892563
1893504
1894525
1895536
1896516
1897492
1898580
1899459
1900618
1901453
1902572
1903512
1904494
1905553
1906498
1907539
1908531
1909534
1910672
1911595
1912732
1913674
1914861
1915937
1916935
1917927
19181,013
19191,073
19201,121
1921976
19221,051
1923951
1924974
19251,003
1926852
1927885
1928826
1929759
1930737
1931752
1932754
1933746
1934710
1935731
1936632
1937607
1938642
1939648
1940636
1941650
1942652
1943636
1944565
1945576
1946598
1947586
1948622
1949659
1950505
1951547
1952482
1953532
1954502
1955477
1956485
1957512
1958557
1959658
1960593
1961594
1962564
1963545
1964520
1965453
1966452
1967421
1968456
1969618
1970704
1971759
1972773
1973807
19741,109
19751,296
19761,593
19772,507
19783,426
19794,512
19806,137
19816,600
19826,681
19836,705
19847,175
19857,995
19868,333
19878,197
19887,770
19897,290
19906,514
19916,425
19926,116
19935,456
19944,983
19954,482
19964,329
19973,867
19983,746
19993,550
20003,413
20013,280
20023,247
20033,219
20043,226
20053,177
20063,104
20073,003
20082,683
20092,255
20101,908
20111,676
20121,452
20131,329
20141,171
20151,061
2016905
2017786
2018723
2019688
2020637
2021587
2022549
2023578
2024526
2025447

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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●

Attested in 75 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Katie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020215K#260
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20191K#2,976
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—481#3,289
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025447—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—307#19,511
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020284#260
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022282—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—280#19,918
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—265#4,280
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—218#4,498
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2019192#27
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020184—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 850 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Katie?
We estimate roughly 239 thousand people bear Katie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Katie have the most bearers?
Katie is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled katie.
How common is Katie compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Katie is the 159th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Katie mean?
Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Katie” — the 159th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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