Cathi

Where Cathi comes from

Cathi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #3,738 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Peak, #796
    159 babies named Cathi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    Cathi Forbes born
    American politician
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,240.
  5. 1968
    Cathi Unsworth born
    English writer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cathi Unsworth · English writer, born 1968
  • Cathi Forbes · American politician, born 1965

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.