Kitty
given name · Latin script
Meaning: English pet form of Katherine, from Greek Aikaterinē
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɪti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kitty is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 897(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.7K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 391 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 897 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English pet form of Katherine, from Greek Aikaterinē.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Kitty, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kitty counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kitty | 44 |
| HK Hong Kong | #156 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 897 | — | Kitty | 54 |
| US United States | — | 7,484 | 1 in 44K | 7.4K | Kitty | 391 |
| NL Netherlands | #442 | 3,036 | 1 in 5.7K | 3K | Kitty | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 6 | Kitty | 183 |
| SG Singapore | #818 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Kitty | 39 |
| NO Norway | — | 428 | 1 in 13K | 1.1K | Kitty | 32 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kitty is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A kitten or young cat, or sometimes adult cat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Se Katarina.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Diminutif anglo-saxon de Catherine; origine grecque, signifie « pure ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
English: pet form of KATHERINE , derived from the pet form KIT + the hypocoristic suffix - y .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kitty Kiernanb. 1892IEfiancée of Michael Collins (1892–1945)
- Kitty Carlisleb. 1910USAmerican stage and screen actress, singer, and spokesperson for the arts (1910–2007)
- Kitty Wellsb. 1919USAmerican country music singer (1919–2012)
- Kitty Genoveseb. 1935USAmerican murder victim
- Kitty Dukakisb. 1936USAmerican author (1936–2025)
- Kitty O'Neilb. 1946USAmerican racing driver and stuntwoman (1946–2018)
- Kitty Aldridgeb. 1962GBBritish actress and writer
- Kitty Crowtherb. 1970BEBelgian children's illustrator and writer (born 1970)
- Kitty Greenb. 1984AUAustralian screenwriter and film director
- Kitty Spencerb. 1990GBnoblewoman; eldest child of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Kitty?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Kathy are forms of the same name in other languages; Katie, Kayla and Kaylee are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Katherine and Kathryn.
- What does the name Kitty mean, and where does it come from?
- English pet form of Katherine, from Greek Aikaterinē. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Kitty a male or female name?
- Kitty is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Kitty?
- A machine transcription gives /kɪti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kitty have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 113 thousand people named Kitty in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kitty.
- How common is the name Kitty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,484 people named Kitty in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Kitty compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Kitty is the 156th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kitty?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kittyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kitty” — the 156th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.