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Cathy

girl name · English origin · 2 syllables

Meaning

pure (short for Catherine, a common refugee-generation English name)

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 1980s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Cathy peaked in the 1980s.

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