Kitty
A girls’ name of English origin, meaning diminutive of Katherine or Catherine.
Kitty by the numbers
In 2025, 23 babies in England and Wales were named Kitty. In the US, 12 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 358 babies in 1947, so it is a 1940s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Catherine
Like Kitty, each of these traces back to Catherine: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Catherinepure; clear1,573 in the US (2017)
- Catalinapure; Spanish form of Catherine1,218 in the US (2017)
- Karenpure; a form of Catherine559 in the US (2017)
- Katarinapure; a form of Catherine141 in the US (2017)
- Cattaleyapure; a modern respelling of Catherine62 in the US (2017)
- Caterinapure; Italian form of Catherine56 in the US (2017)
- Katyapure; a form of Catherine or Ekaterina54 in the US (2017)
- Catalayapure; a modern respelling of Catalina or Catherine51 in the US (2017)
Other names that come from Katherine
Like Kitty, 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.
- Katherinepure2,833 in the US (2017)
- 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)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kitty. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kattypure; a form of katherine13 in the US (2017)
- Kileyslender and fair; from the gaelic name kylie183 in the US (2017)
- Kathypure; a diminutive of Katherine108 in the US (2017)
- Kirbychurch settlement; from Old English cirice and by78 in the US (2017)
- Kristyfollower of Christ; a form of Christine47 in the US (2017)
- Kateypure; a form of Katherine12 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kitty
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