Cato
- #2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
- Peak · boys
- 1891 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 675since 1880
Cato over time
Rank among boys' names. Cato has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,798 | 45 |
| 2024 | #3,045 | 40 |
| 2023 | #4,456 | 23 |
| 2022 | #3,151 | 38 |
| 2021 | #3,180 | 37 |
| 2020 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 23 |
| 2014 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
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| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | — | |
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | — | |
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| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | — | |
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| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,656 | 8 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,480 | 5 |
| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | — | |
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| 1929 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,741 | 6 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,467 | 7 |
| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | #2,804 | 10 |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #2,423 | 11 |
| 1916 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,825 | 5 |
| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,496 | 6 |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,537 | 6 |
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| 1891 | #700 | 8 |
| 1890 | — | |
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| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #809 | 6 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Cato was already there! It came in at #809, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1890, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cato is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #849 | 5 | 1 in 5,370 |
| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cato
- 476 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #2,798)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1891 at #700 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1892, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1880–1891
- Highest: 1 in 12,649 boys born in 1891 were named Cato (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,957 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.1% of all boys named Cato (217) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #809 (1880) | #809 |
| 1890s | 8 | #700 (1891) | #700 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 49 | #1,537 (1911) | #2,888 |
| 1920s | 41 | #2,804 (1921) | #3,543 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,480 (1939) | #3,507 |
| 1940s | 28 | #2,633 (1944) | #2,912 |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,425 (1953) | #3,698 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,673 (1968) | #3,673 |
| 1970s | 17 | #4,554 (1978) | #5,399 |
| 1980s | 18 | #5,926 (1986) | #6,135 |
| 1990s | 11 | #7,792 (1995) | #8,246 |
| 2000s | 58 | #7,427 (2006) | #9,274 |
| 2010s | 190 | #3,446 (2018) | #5,299 |
| 2020s | 217 | #2,798 (2025) | #3,317 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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