Meaning not yet researched.
Kanye: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #486 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #486 in 2004; #12,964 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kanye in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,964 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #486.
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Kanye: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #486 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 509 (2004).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Kanye, making it the 12,964th most common boys’ name of the year, down 6,633 places from #6,331 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 14 boys named Kanye in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #486, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 509. For comparison, it was #3,936 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kanye in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 5 babies. In all, 1,428 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,126 babies named Kanye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 113 US boys were named Kanye; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaniya (2,498 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Canye and Kahnye are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Canye (13), Kahnye (6).
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 Kanye in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #12,964 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,331 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,715 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,317 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,898 |
| 2020 | — | — | 5 | #13,076 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,290 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,531 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,495 |
| 2016 | — | — | 17 | #5,430 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,936 |
| 2014 | — | — | 22 | #4,463 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,871 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,206 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,208 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,586 |
| 2009 | — | — | 64 | #2,129 |
| 2008 | — | — | 81 | #1,817 |
| 2007 | — | — | 53 | #2,426 |
| 2006 | — | — | 101 | #1,504 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,797 | 202 | #893 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,357 | 509 | #486 |
| 2003 | — | — | 87 | #1,493 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #11,594 |
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).