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The first name 
Katy

Katy is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Katy is a well-known but special name!

Katy 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 1,556 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,555 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 15,291 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Katy. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.

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

Katy has 4 letters 
and begins with a K

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 four letters, the name Katy 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 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.

Other names with 
K, a, t and y

If you take all the letters in the name Katy – K, a, t and y – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Tkya or Tyka.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Katy

If your name is Katy 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 Katy

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

Koala

Apple

Tiger

Yoyo

This is how the name Katy 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 Katy in Braille?

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

Katy

Katy

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

K
A
T
Y

Have you ever waved the name Katy

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.

K
A
T
Y

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. Katy sounds like this: