Kitty

given name · English · Latin script

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

Kitty is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 87th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: English pet form of Katherine, from Greek Aikaterinē.

rarermore common
  • HKHong Kong1 in 1.6K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 5.7K
  • NONorway1 in 13K

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

≈12K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
340 ●

145K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.7K ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

KittyLatin · English●129K records
קיטיHebrew · Hebrew●1.3K records

Locally spelled קיטי in IL Israel.

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●

English pet form of Katherine, from Greek Aikaterinē.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Kitty is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7,423108K rec.1 in 45K7.4KKitty340
GB United Kingdom—7,0966.5K rec.—6Kitty143
AU Australia—4,1484K rec.—3Kitty112
CA Canada—3,3433.3K rec.—6Kitty110
NL Netherlands#8443,0154.4K rec.1 in 5.7K3KKitty76
HK Hong Kong#872,2922.2K rec.——Kitty52
DE Germany—2,1602K rec.——Kitty97
IN India—1,7641.1K rec.—1Kitty56
VN Vietnam—1,1691.1K rec.——Kitty36
IL Israel—9671.1K rec.—74קיטי15
MY Malaysia—844768 rec.——Kitty41
IT Italy—734778 rec.——Kitty18

Roughly 7.4K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 45K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English129K66%
  • Spanish7.5K4%
  • Dutch6.9K4%
  • Chinese5.7K3%
  • Western Frisian5.6K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English128,67066%
Spanish7,4674%
Dutch6,9484%
Chinese5,7263%
Western Frisian5,5953%

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◐

Kitty is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name15K records spelled Kitty10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Kïtty, Kîtty, Kïttÿ, Ķíttý, Kittÿ

  • a separate given name2.0K records spelled Kitty4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, Hong Kong, India

    Also written Kîttý, Kítty, Kïttÿ

  • Hungarian given name1.7K records spelled Kitty38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Ukraine, Slovakia

    Languages: Hungarian, Ukrainian, Czech

    Also written Kitti, Кітті, Китти, Kiti, Кити

  • Finnish given name1.1K records spelled Kitty3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Kïttý

64 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●

Kitty is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A kitten or young cat, or sometimes adult cat.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Se Katarina.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Diminutif anglo-saxon de Catherine; origine grecque, signifie « pure ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • English: pet form of KATHERINE , derived from the pet form KIT + the hypocoristic suffix - y .

    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●

0100200300400190019502000358 · 1947

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Kitty in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2024
Yearrecords
18809
188122
188219
188316
188416
188518
188631
188733
188828
188928
189027
189129
189229
189331
189429
189530
189635
189730
189837
189925
190039
190132
190239
190329
190423
190533
190637
190738
190832
190941
191046
191148
191255
191358
191481
1915105
191689
191791
191897
191989
192085
192183
192295
1923107
1924127
1925127
1926127
1927117
1928122
1929119
1930114
1931123
1932126
1933121
1934123
1935130
1936105
1937106
1938136
1939121
1940150
1941172
1942169
1943182
1944174
1945210
1946294
1947358
1948288
1949238
1950228
1951228
1952193
1953209
1954220
1955269
1956277
1957261
1958357
1959311
1960263
1961231
1962235
1963186
1964169
1965127
1966126
196788
196877
196973
197084
197168
197266
197365
197462
197542
197642
197762
197857
197954
198043
198148
198227
198328
198423
198523
198624
198718
198829
198916
199021
199130
199216
199323
19949
199521
199620
199723
199818
199926
200016
200117
200211
200312
200423
200516
200614
200711
200815
20098
201011
201111
201210
201315
201414
201510
20167
201712
20186
20197
202010
20236
20246

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 143 years between 1880–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Kitty Kiernan, b. 1892Kitty Carlisle, b. 1910Kitty Wells, b. 1919Kitty Genovese, b. 1935Kitty Dukakis, b. 1936Kitty O'Neil, b. 1946Kitty Aldridge, b. 1962Kitty Crowther, b. 1970Kitty Green, b. 1984Kitty Spencer, b. 1990
  • Kitty Kiernanb. 1892IEfiancée of Michael Collins (1892–1945)
  • Kitty Carlisleb. 1910USAmerican stage and screen actress, singer, and spokesperson for the arts (1910–2007)
  • Kitty Wellsb. 1919USAmerican country music singer (1919–2012)
  • Kitty Genoveseb. 1935USAmerican murder victim
  • Kitty Dukakisb. 1936USAmerican author (1936–2025)
  • Kitty O'Neilb. 1946USAmerican racing driver and stuntwoman (1946–2018)
  • Kitty Aldridgeb. 1962GBBritish actress and writer
  • Kitty Crowtherb. 1970BEBelgian children's illustrator and writer (born 1970)
  • Kitty Greenb. 1984AUAustralian screenwriter and film director
  • Kitty Spencerb. 1990GBnoblewoman; eldest child of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer

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 54 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Kitty
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.4K#2,992
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—3K#617
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.6K#1,174
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.1K#1,504
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2013677—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—628#2,356
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025428—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020365—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—234#929
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—219#3,301
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—126—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202061#2,992

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 2026-09-12 data build · 614 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kitty?
We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Kitty (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Kitty have the most bearers?
We estimate about 7.4 thousand people bear Kitty in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kitty.
How common is Kitty compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Kitty is the 87th most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
Is Kitty a male or female name?
Kitty 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 Kitty mean?
Recorded meaning: English pet form of Katherine, from Greek Aikaterinē.
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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, “Kitty” — the 87th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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