Cathey
Recorded 1939–1983 · United States
Cathey was most popular in 1953, when 157 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,262 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,216 people named Cathey.
Cathey over time
How old is the name Cathey?
Cathey first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1939, which makes it about 86 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 42 of the 87 years since. It was last recorded in 1983.
How many people are named Cathey?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,216 American births named Cathey between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,768 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Cathey in 2025?
Cathey was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Cathey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Cathey is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,216 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Cathey?
Roughly 1,768 Americans named Cathey are alive today — 80% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 70 years old, and half are between 65 and 75. That is a narrow band: Cathey arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Cathey is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org