Meaning not yet researched.
Kip: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 104 in 2025. Its best rank was #379 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #379 in 1965; #1,626 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kip in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,626 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #379.
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Kip: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 104 boys in 2025. Peak: #379 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 419 (1965).
In 2025, 104 US boys were named Kip, making it the 1,626th most common boys’ name of the year, down 163 places from #1,463 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 124 boys named Kip in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #379, reached in 1965. That year also had the most boys given the name: 419. For comparison, it was #2,665 in 2015 and #712 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kip in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 8 babies. In all, 8,722 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,707 babies named Kip.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 994 US boys were named Kip; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,424 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kip ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #877 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kit (6,262 babies since 1880), Kipp (2,489 babies since 1880) and Skip (2,116 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).
No nicknames listed for Kip 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #877 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #937 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,176 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,006 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,648 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 104 | #1,626 |
| 2024 | — | — | 124 | #1,463 |
| 2023 | — | — | 135 | #1,382 |
| 2022 | — | — | 125 | #1,452 |
| 2021 | — | — | 101 | #1,652 |
| 2020 | — | — | 84 | #1,794 |
| 2019 | — | — | 97 | #1,666 |
| 2018 | — | — | 76 | #1,947 |
| 2017 | — | — | 74 | #1,946 |
| 2016 | — | — | 74 | #1,965 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,665 |
| 2014 | — | — | 50 | #2,499 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,302 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,212 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,591 |
| 2010 | — | — | 21 | #4,613 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,518 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,206 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,304 |
| 2006 | — | — | 30 | #3,485 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,777 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,703 |
| 2003 | — | — | 30 | #3,163 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,057 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,465 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,188 |
| 1999 | — | — | 32 | #2,699 |
| 1998 | — | — | 37 | #2,370 |
| 1997 | — | — | 32 | #2,524 |
| 1996 | — | — | 41 | #2,094 |
| 1995 | — | — | 44 | #1,941 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,914 |
| 1993 | — | — | 38 | #2,111 |
| 1992 | — | — | 56 | #1,592 |
| 1991 | — | — | 68 | #1,375 |
| 1990 | — | — | 62 | #1,426 |
| 1989 | — | — | 55 | #1,508 |
| 1988 | — | — | 70 | #1,219 |
| 1987 | — | — | 56 | #1,328 |
| 1986 | — | — | 54 | #1,341 |
| 1985 | — | — | 80 | #1,029 |
| 1984 | — | — | 104 | #864 |
| 1983 | — | — | 66 | #1,102 |
| 1982 | — | — | 99 | #902 |
| 1981 | — | — | 126 | #776 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,596 | 118 | #811 |
| 1979 | — | — | 102 | #861 |
| 1978 | — | — | 117 | #782 |
| 1977 | — | — | 98 | #861 |
| 1976 | — | — | 120 | #758 |
| 1975 | — | — | 117 | #767 |
| 1974 | — | — | 144 | #678 |
| 1973 | — | — | 150 | #651 |
| 1972 | — | — | 149 | #657 |
| 1971 | — | — | 168 | #635 |
| 1970 | — | — | 185 | #595 |
| 1969 | — | — | 210 | #542 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,373 | 248 | #480 |
| 1967 | — | — | 293 | #439 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,071 | 308 | #435 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,642 | 419 | #379 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,217 | 332 | #442 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,701 | 261 | #497 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,393 | 228 | #529 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,582 | 173 | #602 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,962 | 167 | #606 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,821 | 153 | #623 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,348 | 185 | #570 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,397 | 205 | #542 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,876 | 196 | #536 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,924 | 188 | #541 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,449 | 121 | #661 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,099 | 105 | #698 |
| 1952 | — | — | 99 | #706 |
| 1951 | — | — | 96 | #708 |
| 1950 | — | — | 93 | #712 |
| 1949 | — | — | 68 | #827 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,630 | 61 | #876 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,017 | 55 | #964 |
| 1946 | — | — | 57 | #873 |
| 1945 | — | — | 42 | #989 |
| 1944 | — | — | 28 | #1,275 |
| 1943 | — | — | 25 | #1,420 |
| 1942 | — | — | 15 | #1,911 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,413 |
| 1940 | — | — | 15 | #1,851 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,119 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,360 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,830 |
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).