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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cathy

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#8,463

down −2,473 places

2025 births

12

down −8 births

All-time births

170,303

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1958
10,942 births
Best rank
#34
in 1958
First recorded
1918
#4,936 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1960
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
108 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 195810,942#34Peak
  2. 195910,408#39
  3. 195710,325#39
  4. 195610,132#36
  5. 19609,130#46

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #34 in 1958 · peak births 10,942 in 1958

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

343 boys · 170,303 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cathy has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.