Kati

Where Kati comes from

Kati 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. 1953
    First appearance
    #5,673 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Kati Wolf born
    Hungarian singer
  3. 1976
    Kati Wilhelm born
    German cross-country skier and biathlete
  4. 1984
    Peak, #672
    253 babies named Kati — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,449.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Kati Wilhelm · German cross-country skier and biathlete, born 1976
  • Kati Wolf · Hungarian singer, born 1974
  • Kati Piri · Hungarian-born Dutch politician, born 1979
  • Kati Marton · American writer, born 1949
  • Kati Tolmoff · Estonian badminton player, born 1983

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.