Meaning not yet researched.
Kit: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 208 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,127 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 52% of babies named Kit in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,127 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kit: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 208 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,127 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 208 (2025).
In 2025, 208 US girls were named Kit, making it the 1,127th most common girls’ name of the year, up 112 places from #1,239 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 189 girls named Kit in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,127, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 208. For comparison, it was #4,925 in 2015 and #1,816 in 1950.
In 2025, 195 US boys were named Kit, making it the 1,103rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 40 places from #1,143 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 185 boys named Kit in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #786, reached in 1890. The most boys given the name in a single year was 195, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,944 in 2015 and #831 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kit in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 6,262 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,828 babies named Kit.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,098 US girls were named Kit; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 208. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kit ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #267 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kitty (11,657 babies since 1880), Kip (8,722 babies since 1880), Keith (440,123 babies since 1880) and Kieth (2,837 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kiet are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kittie.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kiet (343).
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.
Kit is listed as a nickname for Catherine, Cathleen, Christian, Christopher, Katherine, Kathleen.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 17 | #267 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #481 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #520 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #629 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #631 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #659 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #804 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #845 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #853 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #968 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,059 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,154 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,213 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,315 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,382 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,448 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,678 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,332 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 208 | #1,127 | 195 | #1,103 |
| 2024 | 189 | #1,239 | 185 | #1,143 |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,573 | 182 | #1,152 |
| 2022 | 166 | #1,384 | 137 | #1,371 |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,892 | 130 | #1,416 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,209 | 114 | #1,493 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,366 | 101 | #1,629 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,924 | 87 | #1,771 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,277 | 67 | #2,079 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,589 | 59 | #2,264 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,925 | 40 | #2,944 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,163 | 21 | #4,630 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,824 | 12 | #6,846 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,640 | 16 | #5,616 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,710 | 13 | #6,435 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,988 | 10 | #7,901 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,724 | 12 | #7,052 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,642 | 10 | #8,035 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,607 | 8 | #9,383 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,180 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,459 | 12 | #6,451 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,511 | 16 | #5,142 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,018 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,869 | 7 | #8,986 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,718 | 22 | #3,794 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,378 | 13 | #5,464 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,577 | 9 | #6,854 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #5,051 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,963 | 11 | #5,493 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,767 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,777 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,838 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,196 | 19 | #3,444 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,409 | 16 | #3,848 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,178 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,118 | 18 | #3,397 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,418 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,833 | 11 | #4,326 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,689 | 31 | #2,000 |
| 1986 | — | — | 23 | #2,396 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,201 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,632 | 33 | #1,749 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,438 | 29 | #1,884 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,134 | 34 | #1,719 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,076 | 35 | #1,682 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,847 | 27 | #2,030 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,942 | 27 | #1,972 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,543 | 36 | #1,586 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,686 | 27 | #1,880 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,929 | 26 | #1,907 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,779 | 29 | #1,732 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,546 | 36 | #1,459 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,061 | 26 | #1,756 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,938 | 41 | #1,319 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,035 | 46 | #1,227 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,368 | 24 | #1,824 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,242 | 36 | #1,337 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,626 | 31 | #1,412 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,555 | 38 | #1,224 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,325 | 29 | #1,441 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,334 | 42 | #1,178 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,442 | 37 | #1,298 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,996 | 42 | #1,206 |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,050 | 29 | #1,466 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,017 | 47 | #1,153 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,842 | 39 | #1,260 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,836 | 59 | #1,007 |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,615 | 68 | #922 |
| 1957 | 60 | #1,370 | 77 | #857 |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,511 | 79 | #842 |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,503 | 86 | #787 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,638 | 74 | #848 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,988 | 74 | #838 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,664 | 74 | #818 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,627 | 68 | #849 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,816 | 67 | #831 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,179 | 42 | #1,089 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,918 | 51 | #981 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,708 | 52 | #990 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,888 | 56 | #883 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,608 | 28 | #1,257 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,680 | 56 | #849 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,495 | 44 | #1,012 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,738 | 31 | #1,263 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,130 | 36 | #1,098 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,859 | 20 | #1,547 |
| 1939 | — | — | 13 | #2,010 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,044 | 9 | #2,587 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,364 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,463 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,495 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,931 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,593 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,448 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,405 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,603 | 6 | #3,940 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,562 | 10 | #2,815 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,577 | 10 | #2,815 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,401 | 5 | #4,589 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,123 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,720 |
| 1921 | — | — | 16 | #2,109 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,362 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,499 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,949 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,496 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,354 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #2,955 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,094 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,587 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,167 |
| 1890 | — | — | 8 | #786 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,041 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #996 |
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).