Given name & surname
Caty
“one who is pure; virginal”
In English use, Caty 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, Caty 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
Caty 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, Caty is a diminutive of Catherine.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Caty through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 197
- 0 boys · 197 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,137 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,137 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 549 as a first name in 2020; 133 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Caty’s family of names
In English usage, Caty is a diminutive of Catherine. In English usage, Caty has a related form in Katie. In English usage, Caty has a related form in Katy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
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 Caty
- Caty McNallyUS American tennis playerborn 2001
- Caty Juan de CorralSpanish gastronomist, writer, researcher and journalist1926–2014
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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