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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cato

Recorded for boysMillennial

2025 rank

#2,804

up +253 places

2025 births

45

up +5 births

All-time births

675

7% of them in 2025

More common than

85%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2025
45 births
Best rank
#716
in 1891
First recorded
1880
#830 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1993
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
57 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202545#2,804Peak
  2. 202440#3,057
  3. 202238#3,165
  4. 202137#3,191
  5. 202034#3,280

Rank over time

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

Best rank #716 in 1891 · peak births 45 in 2025

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 Cato has ranked, decade by decade

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

The girls' series

No girls have been recorded with this name.

Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.