Catie

Where Catie comes from

The dictionaries list Catie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given names Catherine and Caitlin — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #7,388 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Peak, #2,657
    37 babies named Catie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #9,231.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Catherine and Caitlin.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Catie hasn't yet.

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.