In 2025, 32 US girls were named Kateri, making it the 4,406th most common girls’ name of the year, down 546 places from #3,860 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 39 girls named Kateri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,728, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #3,411 in 2015 and #5,680 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kateri in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 5 babies. In all, 2,533 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 494 babies named Kateri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 420 US girls were named Kateri; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Katiria, Catori and Kateria are summarised on this page.