Meaning not yet researched.
Kairos: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 140 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,349 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 94% of babies named Kairos in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,349 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kairos: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 140 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,349 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 140 (2025).
In 2025, 140 US boys were named Kairos, making it the 1,349th most common boys’ name of the year, up 267 places from #1,616 in 2024. That is 34 more than the 106 boys named Kairos in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,349, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 140. For comparison, it was #3,829 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kairos in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 6 babies. In all, 775 US babies have been given the name, 4.6% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 537 babies named Kairos.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 628 US boys were named Kairos; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 140. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,201 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kairos ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #586 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Karis (6,848 babies since 1880) and Karas (652 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kairos in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #586 | — |
| California | 23 | #979 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,041 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,095 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,173 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,272 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,354 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,481 | 140 | #1,349 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,683 | 106 | #1,616 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,765 | 77 | #1,994 |
| 2022 | — | — | 75 | #2,032 |
| 2021 | — | — | 48 | #2,675 |
| 2020 | — | — | 63 | #2,198 |
| 2019 | — | — | 35 | #3,300 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,932 | 40 | #2,970 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,722 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #5,920 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,829 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,191 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,531 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,600 |
| 2011 | — | — | 7 | #10,194 |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #13,262 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,663 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,811 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).