Katie

Where Katie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Katie.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Katie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #76 among girls, with 303 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1984
    Katie Melua born
    English-Georgian singer and songwriter
  3. 1986
    Peak, #38
    8,333 babies named Katie, the most in any year.
  4. 1986
    The comeback
    Back to #38 after sinking to #463 in 1967.
  5. 1997
    Katie Ledecky born
    American Olympic swimmer
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings.
Namesakes
  • Katie Ledecky · American Olympic swimmer, born 1997
  • Katie Melua · English-Georgian singer and songwriter, born 1984
  • Katie Cassidy · American actress and singer, born 1986
  • Katie McGrath · Irish actress, born 1983
  • Katie Leung · Scottish actress, born 1987

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.