Cathy

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling of Kati [1]

Related Names

See Kati

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Cathy
Genitive: Cathys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Cathy
Genitive: Cathyn
Partitive: Cathya
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Cathy
Genitive: Cathys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Cathy
Genitive: Cathys

Further Information

This spelling is also an English pet form of Katherine but with a different pronunciation

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 33 people were named Cathy (percentage of first or only given name: 76 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
83 125 83 125 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
32
n.a.
32
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
40
n.a.
40 0 0
Iceland Iceland[9]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
49
n.a.
49
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Cathy.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  3. Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/