Cate is the C-spelling variant of Kate — from the Greek katharos (pure). Cate Blanchett (born 1969) — *Australian actress with eight Academy Award nominations and two wins: Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator (2004, playing Katharine Hepburn) and Best Actress for Blue Jasmine (2013). Three BAFTAs, four Golden Globes, three SAG Awards, and the Volpi Cup at Venice (2007, 2022). Co-Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company 2008-2012 with husband Andrew Upton. Played the elven queen Galadriel across six Peter Jackson Tolkien films (2001-2014). 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.