How popular is “Kay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kay” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kay” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kay” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kay” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kay” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kay” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1882	5	0.00002257		5	-100%
1885	6	0.000024911	6		100%
1886	6	0.0000235	6		100%
1887	6	0.000024253	6		100%
1888	12	0.00004007	6	6	0%
1889	7	0.000024226	7		100%
1890	5	0.000016589	5		100%
1891	5	0.000017441	5		100%
1892	7	0.000020935	7		100%
1893	16	0.000049197	16		100%
1894	20	0.000059051	14	6	40%
1895	10	0.000028488	10		100%
1896	13	0.000036365	13		100%
1897	20	0.000057644	15	5	50%
1898	14	0.000036702	14		100%
1899	28	0.000082539	23	5	64%
1900	33	0.000073291	26	7	58%
1901	22	0.000063618	22		100%
1902	31	0.000080159	26	5	68%
1903	42	0.000110178	37	5	76%
1904	39	0.000096658	39		100%
1905	54	0.000127382	49	5	81%
1906	47	0.000109697	42	5	79%
1907	59	0.000126775	53	6	80%
1908	81	0.000165763	75	6	85%
1909	83	0.000162355	83		100%
1910	112	0.000189602	106	6	89%
1911	120	0.000186255	111	9	85%
1912	160	0.000161933	143	17	79%
1913	179	0.000157417	159	20	78%
1914	240	0.00016945	215	25	79%
1915	274	0.000149529	243	31	77%
1916	318	0.000164391	272	46	71%
1917	323	0.000160957	283	40	75%
1918	369	0.000169959	311	58	69%
1919	370	0.000175335	330	40	78%
1920	378	0.000167061	313	65	66%
1921	364	0.000155922	304	60	67%
1922	344	0.000150274	281	63	63%
1923	370	0.000160696	285	85	54%
1924	379	0.000159136	302	77	59%
1925	315	0.000135002	248	67	57%
1926	301	0.000131103	224	77	49%
1927	369	0.000159096	267	102	45%
1928	307	0.000135784	223	84	45%
1929	298	0.000135939	218	80	46%
1930	456	0.000205102	351	105	54%
1931	682	0.000324085	558	124	64%
1932	782	0.000370389	658	124	68%
1933	999	0.000499638	864	135	73%
1934	1589	0.000765114	1430	159	80%
1935	1798	0.000860328	1648	150	83%
1936	2545	0.001224984	2408	137	89%
1937	3139	0.001473246	3010	129	92%
1938	3234	0.001461646	3114	120	93%
1939	3383	0.001535325	3260	123	93%
1940	3324	0.001443532	3200	124	93%
1941	3634	0.00149153	3538	96	95%
1942	3719	0.001361364	3623	96	95%
1943	3591	0.00127225	3493	98	95%
1944	3239	0.001204054	3170	69	96%
1945	3109	0.001171921	3058	51	97%
1946	3402	0.001064686	3358	44	97%
1947	3579	0.000993526	3520	59	97%
1948	2985	0.000864586	2943	42	97%
1949	2797	0.000802634	2751	46	97%
1950	2660	0.000759272	2628	32	98%
1951	2997	0.000813576	2963	34	98%
1952	2803	0.000738019	2768	35	98%
1953	2495	0.000647439	2462	33	97%
1954	2542	0.00063858	2506	36	97%
1955	2363	0.000588531	2327	36	97%
1956	2421	0.000587189	2394	27	98%
1957	2392	0.000569233	2355	37	97%
1958	2263	0.000547424	2238	25	98%
1959	2030	0.000488216	2004	26	97%
1960	1954	0.000470411	1925	29	97%
1961	1981	0.000478237	1955	26	97%
1962	1898	0.000470341	1878	20	98%
1963	1622	0.000409782	1607	15	98%
1964	1319	0.000339283	1301	18	97%
1965	1038	0.000286309	1021	17	97%
1966	865	0.000248874	856	9	98%
1967	721	0.000212378	711	10	97%
1968	646	0.000191214	636	10	97%
1969	508	0.000146173	498	10	96%
1970	484	0.000134202	476	8	97%
1971	385	0.000112168	377	8	96%
1972	257	0.000081769	251	6	95%
1973	277	0.000091816	272	5	96%
1974	248	0.000081579	239	9	93%
1975	206	0.000068226	206		100%
1976	198	0.000065254	191	7	93%
1977	202	0.000063592	195	7	93%
1978	161	0.000050727	155	6	93%
1979	164	0.000049294	156	8	90%
1980	158	0.00004587	153	5	94%
1981	172	0.00004972	164	8	91%
1982	159	0.000045325	151	8	90%
1983	150	0.000043311	150		100%
1984	153	0.000043855	147	6	92%
1985	139	0.000038945	139		100%
1986	136	0.000038234	129	7	90%
1987	125	0.000034668	118	7	89%
1988	150	0.000040595	141	9	88%
1989	122	0.000031734	117	5	92%
1990	119	0.000030108	114	5	92%
1991	112	0.000028753	104	8	86%
1992	109	0.000028376	104	5	91%
1993	106	0.000028115	100	6	89%
1994	95	0.000025554	88	7	85%
1995	87	0.000023757	82	5	89%
1996	73	0.000020015	67	6	84%
1997	74	0.00002041	74		100%
1998	75	0.00002039	70	5	87%
1999	66	0.000017867	66		100%
2000	74	0.000019577	74		100%
2001	72	0.000019234	72		100%
2002	79	0.000021133	79		100%
2003	72	0.000018936	66	6	83%
2004	74	0.000019367	67	7	81%
2005	66	0.000017166	61	5	85%
2006	63	0.000015924	63		100%
2007	66	0.00001651	66		100%
2008	46	0.000011703	46		100%
2009	41	0.000010732	41		100%
2010	47	0.000012717	47		100%
2011	47	0.000012849	47		100%
2012	52	0.000014218	52		100%
2013	51	0.000013989	51		100%
2014	66	0.000017807	60	6	82%
2015	51	0.00001378	43	8	69%
2016	52	0.000014174	47	5	81%
2017	59	0.000016498	51	8	73%
2018	69	0.000019625	63	6	83%
2019	50	0.000014405	43	7	72%
2020	52	0.000015566	42	10	62%
2021	51	0.000015053	42	9	65%
2022	57	0.000016848	47	10	65%
2023	61	0.000018422	48	13	57%
2024	52	0.000015623	38	14	46%

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