Given name
Cathi
“one who is pure; virginal”
In English use, Cathi is a diminutive of Catherine. One English interpretation is “one who is pure; virginal.” Its derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Cathi is a diminutive of Catherine. One English interpretation is “one who is pure; virginal.” Its derivation is not certain.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Cathi is a diminutive of Catherine. Catherine possibly comes from French, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Cathi is a diminutive of Catherine.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1942. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cathi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,536
- 0 boys · 2,536 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 162 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 162 in 1961. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,326 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cathi’s family of names
In English usage, Cathi is a diminutive of Catherine. In Filipino usage, Cathi has a related form in Kathy. Cathi has a related form in Catherine.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cathi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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