Meaning not yet researched.
Kate: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 576 in 2025. Its best rank was #79 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #79 in 1880; #522 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kate in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#522 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #79.
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Kate: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 576 girls in 2025. Peak: #79 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 2,550 (2007).
In 2025, 576 US girls were named Kate, making it the 522nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #533 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 572 girls named Kate in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #79, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,550, in 2007. For comparison, it was #222 in 2015 and #857 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kate in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 299 babies with the name. In all, 86,076 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 20,789 babies named Kate.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,717 US girls were named Kate; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,389. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,790 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kate ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #126 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Catherine (669,611 babies since 1880), Katherine (652,750 babies since 1880), Kathy (334,870 babies since 1880) and Katie (241,784 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayte, Cathe and Kath are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kay.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kayte (508), Cathe (255), Kath (38), Kaite (31), Kaethe (20), Kait (18), Caite (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 8 | #126 | #249 |
| Utah | 27 | #166 | #33 |
| Idaho | 11 | #209 | #154 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #218 | #98 |
| Iowa | 13 | #265 | #190 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #285 | #232 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #316 | #143 |
| Kansas | 9 | #384 | #141 |
| North Carolina | 28 | #394 | #219 |
| Missouri | 15 | #405 | #195 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #410 | #218 |
| Alabama | 12 | #412 | #323 |
| Texas | 77 | #436 | #192 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #475 | #352 |
| Florida | 36 | #510 | #289 |
| Georgia | 22 | #520 | #255 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #535 | #272 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #541 | #355 |
| Ohio | 19 | #548 | #457 |
| Indiana | 12 | #560 | #227 |
| Michigan | 14 | #574 | #223 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #583 | #244 |
| California | 55 | #587 | #224 |
| New York | 28 | #597 | #242 |
| Maryland | 7 | #688 | #220 |
| Illinois | 14 | #692 | #287 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #720 | #350 |
| Virginia | 10 | #729 | #292 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #744 | #315 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #842 | #492 |
| Arizona | 7 | #863 | #157 |
| Washington | 6 | #984 | #217 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 576 | #522 | — | — |
| 2024 | 572 | #533 | — | — |
| 2023 | 640 | #480 | — | — |
| 2022 | 695 | #456 | — | — |
| 2021 | 758 | #415 | — | — |
| 2020 | 765 | #412 | — | — |
| 2019 | 989 | #324 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,163 | #285 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,170 | #274 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,389 | #234 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,477 | #222 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,620 | #208 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,738 | #185 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,643 | #192 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,791 | #175 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,490 | #208 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,989 | #159 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2,421 | #139 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,550 | #136 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,441 | #142 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,404 | #141 | 5 | #12,402 |
| 2004 | 2,218 | #147 | 9 | #7,879 |
| 2003 | 2,055 | #161 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,667 | #193 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,626 | #200 | 7 | #8,767 |
| 2000 | 1,397 | #225 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,400 | #229 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,139 | #272 | — | — |
| 1997 | 894 | #323 | — | — |
| 1996 | 811 | #344 | — | — |
| 1995 | 718 | #364 | — | — |
| 1994 | 752 | #351 | — | — |
| 1993 | 785 | #335 | — | — |
| 1992 | 839 | #324 | — | — |
| 1991 | 979 | #288 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,038 | #270 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,080 | #249 | 10 | #5,008 |
| 1988 | 1,153 | #230 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,449 | #191 | 5 | #7,570 |
| 1986 | 1,442 | #186 | 11 | #4,005 |
| 1985 | 1,491 | #179 | 6 | #6,172 |
| 1984 | 1,553 | #178 | 5 | #6,842 |
| 1983 | 1,333 | #199 | 5 | #6,784 |
| 1982 | 1,341 | #202 | — | — |
| 1981 | 1,397 | #192 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,329 | #197 | 8 | #4,733 |
| 1979 | 1,260 | #208 | 8 | #4,634 |
| 1978 | 998 | #243 | — | — |
| 1977 | 828 | #290 | — | — |
| 1976 | 530 | #388 | — | — |
| 1975 | 477 | #423 | — | — |
| 1974 | 352 | #500 | — | — |
| 1973 | 275 | #579 | — | — |
| 1972 | 257 | #611 | — | — |
| 1971 | 225 | #682 | — | — |
| 1970 | 294 | #598 | — | — |
| 1969 | 224 | #663 | — | — |
| 1968 | 195 | #695 | — | — |
| 1967 | 172 | #751 | — | — |
| 1966 | 179 | #738 | — | — |
| 1965 | 203 | #690 | — | — |
| 1964 | 211 | #713 | — | — |
| 1963 | 207 | #707 | — | — |
| 1962 | 218 | #698 | — | — |
| 1961 | 220 | #706 | — | — |
| 1960 | 208 | #708 | — | — |
| 1959 | 173 | #775 | — | — |
| 1958 | 156 | #807 | — | — |
| 1957 | 163 | #791 | — | — |
| 1956 | 108 | #970 | — | — |
| 1955 | 121 | #886 | — | — |
| 1954 | 101 | #966 | — | — |
| 1953 | 117 | #867 | — | — |
| 1952 | 101 | #923 | — | — |
| 1951 | 112 | #848 | — | — |
| 1950 | 107 | #857 | — | — |
| 1949 | 111 | #839 | — | — |
| 1948 | 109 | #839 | — | — |
| 1947 | 120 | #792 | — | — |
| 1946 | 89 | #882 | — | — |
| 1945 | 76 | #864 | — | — |
| 1944 | 89 | #810 | — | — |
| 1943 | 102 | #771 | — | — |
| 1942 | 101 | #755 | — | — |
| 1941 | 111 | #672 | — | — |
| 1940 | 94 | #718 | — | — |
| 1939 | 107 | #656 | — | — |
| 1938 | 95 | #706 | — | — |
| 1937 | 81 | #757 | — | — |
| 1936 | 95 | #685 | — | — |
| 1935 | 105 | #636 | — | — |
| 1934 | 94 | #692 | — | — |
| 1933 | 83 | #715 | — | — |
| 1932 | 97 | #689 | — | — |
| 1931 | 99 | #671 | — | — |
| 1930 | 111 | #652 | — | — |
| 1929 | 122 | #624 | — | — |
| 1928 | 131 | #616 | — | — |
| 1927 | 151 | #578 | — | — |
| 1926 | 164 | #548 | — | — |
| 1925 | 173 | #544 | — | — |
| 1924 | 222 | #468 | — | — |
| 1923 | 225 | #458 | — | — |
| 1922 | 234 | #444 | — | — |
| 1921 | 289 | #398 | — | — |
| 1920 | 255 | #415 | — | — |
| 1919 | 309 | #368 | — | — |
| 1918 | 302 | #378 | — | — |
| 1917 | 322 | #351 | — | — |
| 1916 | 318 | #346 | — | — |
| 1915 | 339 | #326 | 5 | #4,113 |
| 1914 | 311 | #297 | — | — |
| 1913 | 257 | #298 | — | — |
| 1912 | 260 | #281 | — | — |
| 1911 | 216 | #264 | — | — |
| 1910 | 206 | #271 | — | — |
| 1909 | 183 | #265 | — | — |
| 1908 | 191 | #251 | — | — |
| 1907 | 184 | #255 | — | — |
| 1906 | 196 | #223 | — | — |
| 1905 | 183 | #234 | — | — |
| 1904 | 213 | #207 | — | — |
| 1903 | 202 | #209 | — | — |
| 1902 | 213 | #200 | 5 | #1,228 |
| 1901 | 196 | #204 | — | — |
| 1900 | 297 | #180 | — | — |
| 1899 | 219 | #188 | — | — |
| 1898 | 297 | #169 | — | — |
| 1897 | 267 | #167 | — | — |
| 1896 | 303 | #154 | — | — |
| 1895 | 262 | #162 | — | — |
| 1894 | 328 | #133 | — | — |
| 1893 | 323 | #132 | — | — |
| 1892 | 345 | #126 | — | — |
| 1891 | 305 | #127 | — | — |
| 1890 | 352 | #116 | — | — |
| 1889 | 362 | #105 | — | — |
| 1888 | 360 | #107 | — | — |
| 1887 | 331 | #102 | — | — |
| 1886 | 335 | #100 | — | — |
| 1885 | 309 | #97 | — | — |
| 1884 | 344 | #87 | — | — |
| 1883 | 294 | #90 | — | — |
| 1882 | 293 | #87 | — | — |
| 1881 | 267 | #86 | — | — |
| 1880 | 299 | #79 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).