Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kaye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kaye” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kaye” 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 “Kaye” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kaye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kaye” 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
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 100%
1912 20 0.000020242 20 100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 100%
1915 16 0.000008732 16 100%
1916 27 0.000013958 27 100%
1917 18 0.00000897 18 100%
1918 22 0.000010133 22 100%
1919 34 0.000016112 34 100%
1920 32 0.000014143 25 7 56%
1921 34 0.000014564 34 100%
1922 41 0.000017911 30 11 46%
1923 36 0.000015635 36 100%
1924 28 0.000011757 28 100%
1925 40 0.000017143 35 5 75%
1926 46 0.000020036 40 6 74%
1927 37 0.000015953 25 12 35%
1928 33 0.000014596 25 8 52%
1929 28 0.000012773 15 13 7%
1930 63 0.000028336 34 29 8%
1931 97 0.000046094 49 48 1%
1932 118 0.00005589 55 63 -7%
1933 102 0.000051014 66 36 29%
1934 142 0.000068374 99 43 39%
1935 152 0.000072731 119 33 57%
1936 217 0.000104449 189 28 74%
1937 256 0.00012015 241 15 88%
1938 283 0.000127905 267 16 89%
1939 340 0.000154304 323 17 90%
1940 370 0.000160682 355 15 92%
1941 397 0.000162944 389 8 96%
1942 397 0.000145324 397 100%
1943 485 0.00017183 475 10 96%
1944 453 0.000168397 443 10 96%
1945 455 0.00017151 443 12 95%
1946 490 0.00015335 479 11 96%
1947 547 0.000151846 538 9 97%
1948 433 0.000125416 428 5 98%
1949 387 0.000111054 387 100%
1950 370 0.000105613 364 6 97%
1951 426 0.000115643 417 9 96%
1952 374 0.000098473 374 100%
1953 369 0.000095754 361 8 96%
1954 393 0.000098726 388 5 97%
1955 347 0.000086424 347 100%
1956 350 0.000084889 350 100%
1957 347 0.000082577 342 5 97%
1958 332 0.000080311 332 100%
1959 262 0.000063011 262 100%
1960 291 0.000070056 291 100%
1961 315 0.000076045 315 100%
1962 278 0.000068891 278 100%
1963 235 0.00005937 235 100%
1964 217 0.000055818 217 100%
1965 170 0.000046891 170 100%
1966 118 0.00003395 118 100%
1967 135 0.000039766 135 100%
1968 119 0.000035224 119 100%
1969 130 0.000037407 130 100%
1970 90 0.000024955 90 100%
1971 75 0.000021851 75 100%
1972 59 0.000018772 59 100%
1973 51 0.000016905 51 100%
1974 38 0.0000125 38 100%
1975 39 0.000012916 39 100%
1976 38 0.000012523 38 100%
1977 32 0.000010074 32 100%
1978 40 0.000012603 40 100%
1979 33 0.000009919 33 100%
1980 52 0.000015097 52 100%
1981 46 0.000013297 46 100%
1982 45 0.000012828 45 100%
1983 42 0.000012127 42 100%
1984 27 0.000007739 27 100%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 100%
1986 31 0.000008715 31 100%
1987 29 0.000008043 29 100%
1988 43 0.000011637 43 100%
1989 30 0.000007803 30 100%
1990 30 0.00000759 30 100%
1991 25 0.000006418 25 100%
1992 18 0.000004686 18 100%
1993 30 0.000007957 30 100%
1994 19 0.000005111 19 100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 100%
1997 26 0.000007171 26 100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 16 0.00000428 16 100%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 100%
2015 16 0.000004323 16 100%
2016 8 0.000002181 8 100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 10 0.000002844 10 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 100%
2022 15 0.000004434 15 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 100%

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