Cate
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 152 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,789since 1980
Cate over time
Rank among girls' names. Cate has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 |
| 2018 | #3,346 | 47 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 |
| 2014 | #2,809 | 61 |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 61 |
| 2012 | #2,145 | 88 |
| 2011 | #2,043 | 95 |
| 2010 | #2,360 | 80 |
| 2009 | #1,848 | 115 |
| 2008 | #1,528 | 152 |
| 2007 | #1,804 | 118 |
| 2006 | #2,206 | 87 |
| 2005 | #1,681 | 118 |
| 2004 | #1,734 | 111 |
| 2003 | #2,125 | 82 |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 |
| 2001 | #3,316 | 41 |
| 2000 | #3,121 | 44 |
| 1999 | #3,313 | 38 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
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| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cate! It came in at #10,392, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cate is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#946 · 1 in 7,190
- North Carolina#982 · 1 in 6,350
- Pennsylvania#1,110 · 1 in 9,239
- California#1,454 · 1 in 12,713
- New York#2,120 · 1 in 19,402
Best ever in a state: #484 in Connecticut, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #946 | 8 | 1 in 7,190 |
| North Carolina | #982 | 7 | 1 in 6,350 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,110 | 6 | 1 in 9,239 |
| California | #1,454 | 18 | 1 in 12,713 |
| New York | #2,120 | 5 | 1 in 19,402 |
| Texas | #2,280 | 7 | 1 in 22,754 |
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See more about Cate
- 3,839 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #8,860)
- 2,535 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #8,860)
- 5,933 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #8,860)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2008 at #1,528 (152 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,440 girls born in 2008 were named Cate (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 52.1% of all girls named Cate (932) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 52 | #7,353 (1987) | #8,654 |
| 1990s | 87 | #3,313 (1999) | #10,175 |
| 2000s | 932 | #1,528 (2008) | #2,183 |
| 2010s | 598 | #2,043 (2011) | #3,075 |
| 2020s | 120 | #5,021 (2024) | #6,243 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cate in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 16,543 of them was named Cate, which outranked 90.8% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,726Liv112
- #1,726Marion112
- #1,726Tyana112
- #1,734Cate111
- #1,734Abriana111
- #1,734Brynlee111
- #1,734Darian111
- #1,746Alanis110
- #1,746Ariyanna110
- #1,746Bryce110
Tied with 11 names at #1,734; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.