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The first name 
Cate

Cate is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Cate meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Cate is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Cate. In the SmartGenius ranking, Cate is #3,151 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cate.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Cate

Cate -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Cate did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Cate seemed to be more popular than ever in 2008. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,433, 152 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Cate, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Cate was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Cate in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Cate a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #4,546 - with a total of 25 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Cate -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Cate are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Cate in 22 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Cate live in Texas – here, one in 74,209 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 245,889 will turn around if you call her first name Cate.

Cate has 4 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With four letters, the name Cate is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.

Other names with 
C, a, t and e

If you take all the letters in the name Cate – C, a, t and e – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Tace.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Cate

If your name is Cate and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Cate

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cate, you can simply say:

Cat

Apple

Tiger

Elephant

This is how the name Cate is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Cate in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Cate

Cate

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Cate

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Cate is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
A
T
E

Have you ever waved the name Cate

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
A
T
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cate sounds like this: