Girl
Kathy
Rooted in Greek, Kathy is a girl's name that means "Pure". It was at its most popular in the 1950s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is widely recognized. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
GreekDiminutive of Katherine
GreekPure
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
57
1920s
198
1930s
1,254
1940s
34,844
1950s
158,216
1960s
101,371
1970s
22,794
1980s
7,005
1990s
4,314
2000s
3,011
2010s
1,209
Peaked in the 1950s · 334,273 total U.S. births since 1900