Kate
25
Babies in 2024
-80%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.05k
-17%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Kate
Kate peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (1,055 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 25 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Kate reached its peak in 1996, when 1,055 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #59 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 25 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 10,276 girls have been officially registered with the name Kate in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 763 girls were registered with the name, starting from 126 in 2014 and ending at 25 in 2024.