Meaning not yet researched.
Kayce: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 843 in 2025. Its best rank was #375 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 91% of babies named Kayce in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#375 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kayce: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 843 boys in 2025. Peak: #375 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 843 (2025).
In 2025, 843 US boys were named Kayce, making it the 375th most common boys’ name of the year, up 44 places from #419 in 2024. That is 83 more than the 760 boys named Kayce in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #375, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 843. For comparison, it was #4,475 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 85 US girls were named Kayce, making it the 2,180th most common girls’ name of the year, down 34 places from #2,146 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 89 girls named Kayce in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,213, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #4,789 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayce in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 6 babies. In all, 6,540 US babies have been given the name, 49% of them girls and 51% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,402 babies named Kayce.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,155 US boys were named Kayce; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 843. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,026 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kayce ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #150 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kace (3,219 babies since 1880) and Cayce (1,747 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kache, Cace and Kayke 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: Kache (173), Cace (131), Kayke (11), Kaice (5).
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 Kayce 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 13 | #150 | — |
| Missouri | 34 | #211 | — |
| Mississippi | 14 | #230 | — |
| Nebraska | 11 | #234 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #252 | — |
| New Mexico | 8 | #255 | — |
| Montana | 5 | #257 | — |
| Iowa | 15 | #269 | — |
| Oregon | 16 | #275 | — |
| Washington | 27 | #276 | — |
| Louisiana | 18 | #284 | — |
| South Carolina | 18 | #306 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #308 | — |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #310 | — |
| Kentucky | 17 | #311 | — |
| Georgia | 39 | #316 | — |
| Arkansas | 11 | #319 | — |
| Alabama | 17 | #324 | — |
| Indiana | 23 | #332 | — |
| Michigan | 26 | #341 | — |
| Idaho | 7 | #357 | — |
| Utah | 13 | #362 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #368 | — |
| Arizona | 21 | #370 | — |
| Virginia | 22 | #372 | — |
| Ohio | 29 | #385 | — |
| North Carolina | 28 | #401 | — |
| Minnesota | 14 | #403 | — |
| Tennessee | 19 | #423 | — |
| Colorado | 14 | #430 | — |
| Texas | 78 | #431 | #2,258 |
| Illinois | 25 | #437 | — |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #488 | — |
| California | 62 | #501 | — |
| Florida | 35 | #513 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #557 | — |
| New Jersey | 13 | #558 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #605 | — |
| New York | 25 | #609 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #662 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,180 | 843 | #375 |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,146 | 760 | #419 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,801 | 666 | #460 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,099 | 488 | #587 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,235 | 197 | #1,077 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,095 | 85 | #1,784 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,394 | 48 | #2,675 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,618 | 26 | #4,056 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,588 | 24 | #4,276 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,532 | 18 | #5,229 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,789 | 22 | #4,475 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,407 | 14 | #6,151 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,824 | 13 | #6,448 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,174 | 11 | #7,306 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,865 | 9 | #8,445 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,451 | 7 | #10,229 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,707 | 6 | #11,739 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,130 | 8 | #9,441 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,017 | 11 | #7,358 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,338 | 7 | #10,140 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,047 | 8 | #8,545 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,041 | 7 | #8,942 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,652 | 5 | #11,492 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,628 | 7 | #8,033 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,702 | 7 | #7,703 |
| 1996 | 70 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,512 | 5 | #9,128 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1990 | 105 | #1,490 | 7 | #6,810 |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,467 | 7 | #6,589 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1987 | 119 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,892 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,566 | — | — |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,268 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,531 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,568 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,889 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,528 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,737 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,411 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,509 | — | — |
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).