Katie is the English diminutive of Katherine — from the Greek katharos (pure). **A top-100 US baby name from 1979 to 2010**. **Katie Ledecky (born 1997)** — **American swimmer; seven Olympic gold medals across three Olympic Games (2012, 2016, 2020, 2024); nine total Olympic medals — the most decorated female swimmer in Olympic history**. **21 World Championship gold medals — the most ever in women's swimming**. **Set the world record in the women's 1500m freestyle 13 times since 2013; holds the longest current world record in women's swimming (1500m free 2018)**. **Stanford grad in psychology (2021)**. **Katie Couric (born 1957)** — first solo female anchor of a US weeknight network news broadcast (*CBS Evening News*, 2006-2011). **Katie Holmes** (*Dawson's Creek*), **Katie Porter** (US Congresswoman).
Subject of countless swimming retrospectives.
Katie reduces to nine — the number of seven Olympic golds.