Kathy is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Kathy is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,651 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,650 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 329,737 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kathy. That is 0.10 % of all living Americans.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Kathy reached its highest rank ever in the year 1958 at #14. In other words: 23,987 newborn girls were named Kathy that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Kathy is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Kathy will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kathy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Kathy ranked 2,162 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 75 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Kathy will remain a universally popular name.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Kathy. Because: There are women and girls named Kathy in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Kathy is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Kentucky, where Kathy ranks on place 56. The greatest chance of meeting Kathy, however, is in West Virginia, where one in 256 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 468 women and girls and in Nevada, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 897 women and girls for their name before you once get Kathy as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Kathy is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kathy 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kathy, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kathy
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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Y
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.
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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. Kathy sounds like this:
