Kitty
About 11,657 American babies have been named Kitty since 1880, most of them around 1947. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 6,400 Kittys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kitty
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,657
- Estimated living today
- 6,400
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 430th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Kittys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,657 babies given the name since 1880, about 6,400 are alive — 55 in every hundred. Roughly 150 of them are children and 3,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
and related names.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kittys
- Kitty Carlisle (1910–2007)American stage and screen actress, singer, and spokesperson for the arts
- Kitty Wells (1919–2012)American country music singer
- Kitty Lange Kielland (1843–1914)Norwegian painter
- Kitty Winn (born 1943)American actress
- Kitty Marion (1871–1944)actress and political activist, Militant Suffragette
- Kitty van Male (born 1988)Olympic field hockey player
- Kitty Kallen (1921–2016)American singer
- Kitty Joyner (1916–1993)American electrical engineer
People named Kitty with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kitty is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kitty is most concentrated in West Virginia (4.3×), Virginia (3.2×), Kentucky (2.2×), Tennessee (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Kitty peaked:
Kitty elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Kitty | 3,714 | 189th |
| Norway girls | Kitty | 299 | 195th |
| Ireland girls | Kitty | 261 | 229th |
| France girls | Kitty | 95 | 1,674th |
| Scotland girls | Kitty | 93 | 411th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kitty | 34 | 282nd |
| Belgium girls | Kitty | 30 | 717th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kitty: rank by region
In 1998, Kitty was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Kitty | 640 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kitty among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Kitty | 2,579 | 3,015 |
| Finland girls | Kitty | 105 | 126 |
| the Netherlands boys | Kitty | — | 21 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Kitty against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.