Recorded 1926–1998 · United States
Cathie was most popular in 1958, when 277 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,050 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 5,586 people named Cathie.
Cathie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1926, which makes it about 99 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 60 of the 100 years since. It was last recorded in 1998.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 5,586 American births named Cathie 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 4,377 are estimated to be alive today.
Cathie 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.
Across the whole record Cathie is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 5,586 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.
Roughly 4,377 Americans named Cathie are alive today — 78% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 70 years old, and half are between 64 and 76. That is a narrow band: Cathie 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.
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