Entry № 5294 · English origin

Kathy Kathy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KATH-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Pure (Kathy Bates, Misery Oscar; Kathie Lee Gifford)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "pure (kathy bates, misery oscar; kathie lee gifford)".

Kathy is the English diminutive of Katherine / Kathleen — from the Greek katharos (pure). Kathy Mattea — two-time Grammy country singer.

Pure. Kathy Bates' Misery Oscar was only the second horror Best Actress in history.

The name in its native script.

Kathy
Transliteration
Kathy
Pronunciation
/ ˈkæθ.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kathy stands.

Kathy 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.

Kathys before her.

Real people
Kathy Bates
American Oscar actress.
born 1948
Kathie Lee Gifford
American TV host.
born 1953
Kathy Griffin
American comedian.
born 1960
Kathy Ireland
American model and businesswoman.
born 1963
In fiction
Kathy
Various American TV.

Names connected to Kathy.

The number behind Kathy.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kathy reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.