Kathe
Kathe is a name with a single cultural origin: German.
- German
Meaning & Origin of Kathe
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kathe is a name with a single cultural origin: German.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- German
The Story of Kathe
Kathe first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1940, with 13 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1951: 56 births, good for #1,239 nationwide. About 41% of every Kathe on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Kathe last appeared in the published SSA data in 2005, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
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About the name Kathe
Kathe is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1940 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Kathe's peak popularity came in 1951 when it ranked #1,239. Use the chart and map above to compare Kathe's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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