Katie Girl
How popular is Katie?
#646 girl name in 2025
447 baby girls were named Katie in the US in 2025, making it the 646th most popular girl name.
Katie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #646 for girls (▼ 70 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 447 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-58% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #307 in 2015, #480 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1986 (8,333 girls) |
| Highest rank | #38 in 1986 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Katie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Katie family of names ranked #540 for girls in 2025 (#472 the year before), with 537 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Katie is most popular
Babies named Katie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Pennsylvania: 1.0 per 1,000 (233 girls)
- Arkansas: 0.9 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.9 per 1,000 (74 girls)
- Alabama: 0.8 per 1,000 (72 girls)
- Missouri: 0.7 per 1,000 (89 girls)
Katie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,907 | #76 |
| 1890s | 5,178 | #86 |
| 1900s | 5,304 | #102 |
| 1910s | 8,419 | #122 |
| 1920s | 9,398 | #184 |
| 1930s | 6,959 | #220 |
| 1940s | 6,180 | #250 |
| 1950s | 5,257 | #338 |
| 1960s | 5,216 | #373 |
| 1970s | 17,486 | #63 |
| 1980s | 72,883 | #38 |
| 1990s | 49,468 | #53 |
| 2000s | 30,607 | #95 |
| 2010s | 11,699 | #161 |
| 2020s | 3,324 | #480 |
Girl names about as popular as Katie
Questions
- Is Katie a boy or girl name?
- Katie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Katie were girls.
- How popular is the name Katie?
- 447 baby girls were named Katie in the US in 2025, making it the 646th most popular girl name.
- When was Katie most popular?
- Katie peaked in 1986, when 8,333 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #38, held for 2 years starting in 1986.
- How many people are named Katie?
- 241,784 babies have been named Katie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 196,777 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 37.
- Where is Katie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Katie was most common in Pennsylvania, at 1.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.