Meaning not yet researched.
Kaye: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #322 in 1943.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #322 in 1943; #6,442 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaye in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,442 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1943, at #322.
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Kaye: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #322 in 1943 · most girls in one year: 538 (1947).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Kaye, making it the 6,442nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,800 places from #9,242 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 11 girls named Kaye in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #322, reached in 1943. The most girls given the name in a single year was 538, in 1947. For comparison, it was #7,438 in 2015 and #419 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaye in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 6 babies. In all, 13,707 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 4,414 babies named Kaye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 113 US girls were named Kaye; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kay (102,545 babies since 1880), Kai (78,710 babies since 1880), Kaia (20,967 babies since 1880) and Kaya (10,976 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kaye in the open dataset we use.
Kaye is listed as a nickname for Katelin, Katelyn, Katherine.
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 | 18 | #6,442 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,242 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,795 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,460 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,263 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,908 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,366 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,185 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,201 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,317 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,438 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,542 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,625 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,839 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,186 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,123 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,461 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,741 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,148 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,990 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,104 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,241 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,785 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,872 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,971 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,230 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,029 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,890 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,919 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,632 | — | — |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,376 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,127 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,567 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,013 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,123 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,232 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1971 | 75 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1970 | 90 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1969 | 130 | #934 | — | — |
| 1968 | 119 | #950 | — | — |
| 1967 | 135 | #877 | — | — |
| 1966 | 118 | #934 | — | — |
| 1965 | 170 | #760 | — | — |
| 1964 | 217 | #704 | — | — |
| 1963 | 235 | #660 | — | — |
| 1962 | 278 | #599 | — | — |
| 1961 | 315 | #561 | — | — |
| 1960 | 291 | #579 | — | — |
| 1959 | 262 | #613 | — | — |
| 1958 | 332 | #531 | — | — |
| 1957 | 342 | #517 | 5 | #4,271 |
| 1956 | 350 | #500 | — | — |
| 1955 | 347 | #487 | — | — |
| 1954 | 388 | #447 | 5 | #4,102 |
| 1953 | 361 | #455 | 8 | #3,040 |
| 1952 | 374 | #444 | — | — |
| 1951 | 417 | #406 | 9 | #2,772 |
| 1950 | 364 | #419 | 6 | #3,510 |
| 1949 | 387 | #407 | — | — |
| 1948 | 428 | #384 | 5 | #3,939 |
| 1947 | 538 | #344 | 9 | #2,772 |
| 1946 | 479 | #342 | 11 | #2,342 |
| 1945 | 443 | #324 | 12 | #2,066 |
| 1944 | 443 | #323 | 10 | #2,388 |
| 1943 | 475 | #322 | 10 | #2,478 |
| 1942 | 397 | #351 | — | — |
| 1941 | 389 | #335 | 8 | #2,773 |
| 1940 | 355 | #341 | 15 | #1,850 |
| 1939 | 323 | #363 | 17 | #1,681 |
| 1938 | 267 | #411 | 16 | #1,781 |
| 1937 | 241 | #416 | 15 | #1,875 |
| 1936 | 189 | #468 | 28 | #1,259 |
| 1935 | 119 | #599 | 33 | #1,153 |
| 1934 | 99 | #673 | 43 | #979 |
| 1933 | 66 | #824 | 36 | #1,098 |
| 1932 | 55 | #961 | 63 | #805 |
| 1931 | 49 | #1,005 | 48 | #950 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,306 | 29 | #1,355 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,250 | 13 | #2,263 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,653 | 8 | #3,236 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,701 | 12 | #2,469 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,233 | 6 | #3,960 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,358 | 5 | #4,579 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,522 | 11 | #2,717 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,681 | 7 | #3,656 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,570 | — | — |
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).