Cate
Cate is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2008152 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1980
- 1,778people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,778 girls have been named Cate in the United States since 1980, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 152 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 52%.
By decade
In 2008, its biggest year
Cate was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Cate
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janiahpeak 2008
- Lamyapeak 2007
- Laniyapeak 2007
- Aniyapeak 2007
- Taniyahpeak 2003
- Samyapeak 2007
- Damyapeak 2008
- Sanaapeak 2006
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.