Cate is the C-spelling variant of Kate — from the Greek katharos (pure). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador (since 2016) — has visited Lebanese, Jordanian, and Bangladeshi refugee camps. Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (2017). Cate Le Bon — Welsh musician. Cate Edwards — daughter of John Edwards.
Subject of countless cinema studies.
Cate does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cate reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.