Kathy
A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning pure; a diminutive of Katherine.
Kathy by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Kathy. In the US, 108 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 23,943 babies in 1958, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Katherine
Like Kathy, each of these traces back to Katherine: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Katiepure; a diminutive of Katherine770 in the US (2017)
- Katelynpure; a modern variant of Katherine760 in the US (2017)
- Kathrynpure; variant spelling of Katherine744 in the US (2017)
- Kitdiminutive of Christopher or Katherine413 in England and Wales (2025)
- Kaelynpure; a modern variant of Katelyn or Katherine332 in the US (2017)
- Kathleenpure; a form of Katherine310 in the US (2017)
- Katrinavariant of Katherine; pure or unsullied193 in the US (2017)
- Katerinapure; a form of Katherine167 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kathy. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Kathy
Names that are said the same way as Kathy, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Other names that mean purity
Like Kathy, each of these has purity in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Kathy
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