Kathie

Where Kathie comes from

Kathie 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. 1918
    First appearance
    #3,869 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1930
    Kathie Browne born
    American actress
  3. 1943
    Kathie Sarachild born
    American writer
  4. 1954
    Peak, #274
    948 babies named Kathie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1960
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #451.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Kathie Browne · American actress, 1930–2003
  • Kathie Sarachild · American writer, born 1943
  • Kathie Conway · Member of the Missouri House of Representatives, 1955–2024
  • Kathie Hess Crouse · American politician and activist, born 1969
  • Kathie Fitch · American actress, died 1990

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.