Kitty

Where Kitty comes from

Clipping of Katherine and related names + -y (diminutive suffix).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kitty
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #346
    22 babies named Kitty — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1910
    Kitty Carlisle born
    American stage and screen actress, singer, and spokesperson for the arts
  4. 1919
    Kitty Wells born
    American country music singer
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #8,804.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Katherine or related names.
Namesakes
  • Kitty Carlisle · American stage and screen actress, singer, and spokesperson for the arts, 1910–2007
  • Kitty Wells · American country music singer, 1919–2012
  • Kitty Lange Kielland · Norwegian painter, 1843–1914
  • Kitty Marion · actress and political activist, Militant Suffragette, 1871–1944
  • Kitty Kallen · American singer, 1921–2016

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.