Given name & surname
Cathie
“one who is pure; virginal”
In English use, Cathie 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, Cathie 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
Cathie 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, Cathie is a diminutive of Catherine.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cathie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,586
- 0 boys · 5,586 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 277 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 6 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 277 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,844 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 52,510 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cathie’s family of names
In English usage, Cathie is a diminutive of Catherine. In English usage, Cathie has a related form in Kathy. Cathie has a related form in Catherine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 48
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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People named Cathie
- Cathie WoodAmerican investor and businesswoman; CEO of Ark Investborn 1955
- Cathie MartinBritish botanistborn 1955
- Cathie CraigieBritish politician (born 1954)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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