Kathy

Where Kathy comes from

From Kath + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kathy
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,398 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1947
    Kathy Acker born
    American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
  3. 1958
    Kathy Hochul born
    57th governor of state New York since 2021
  4. 1958
    Peak, #14
    23,938 babies named Kathy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #39.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Katherine and Kathleen, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Kathy Hochul · 57th governor of state New York since 2021, born 1958
  • Kathy Acker · American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet, 1947–1997
  • Kathy Baker · American actress, born 1950
  • Kathy Reichs · American writer and forensic anthropologist, born 1948
  • Kathy Najimy · American actress, born 1957

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.