Katy Girl
How popular is Katy?
#2,691 girl name in 2025
64 baby girls were named Katy in the US in 2025, making it the 2691st most popular girl name.
Katy popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,691 for girls (▼ 229 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 64 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-55% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,545 in 2015, #2,196 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1987 (674 girls) |
| Highest rank | #351 in 1987 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Katy 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 Katy is most popular
Babies named Katy per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (73 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 girls)
- Indiana: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Katy by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 54 | #679 |
| 1890s | 123 | #758 |
| 1900s | 184 | #688 |
| 1910s | 356 | #858 |
| 1920s | 538 | #907 |
| 1930s | 543 | #775 |
| 1940s | 706 | #786 |
| 1950s | 935 | #757 |
| 1960s | 1,445 | #751 |
| 1970s | 2,473 | #444 |
| 1980s | 5,926 | #351 |
| 1990s | 3,486 | #510 |
| 2000s | 2,212 | #933 |
| 2010s | 1,491 | #1,196 |
| 2020s | 480 | #2,142 |
Girl names about as popular as Katy
Questions
- Is Katy a boy or girl name?
- Katy is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Katy were girls.
- How popular is the name Katy?
- 64 baby girls were named Katy in the US in 2025, making it the 2691st most popular girl name.
- When was Katy most popular?
- Katy peaked in 1987, when 674 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #351 in 1987.
- How many people are named Katy?
- 20,957 babies have been named Katy in the US since 1880. We estimate about 18,362 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 39.
- Where is Katy most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Katy was most common in Pennsylvania, at 0.1 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.