Katy

Where Katy comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Katy.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Katy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1981
    Katy Mixon born
    American actress and model
  3. 1987
    Peak, #351
    674 babies named Katy, the most in any year.
  4. 1993
    Katy Marchant born
    British cyclist
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #654.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Katherine, variant of Katie.
Namesakes
  • Katy Marchant · British cyclist, born 1993
  • Katy Mixon · American actress and model, born 1981
  • Katy O'Brian · American actress, writer and martial artist, born 1989
  • Katy Bødtger · Danish singer, 1932–2017
  • Katy Topuria · Georgian singer, born 1986

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.