Kaye
Kaye is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 322nd, in 1943.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1947538 births
- Best rank
- #322in 1943
- Since 1901
- 13,688people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,185 girls have been named Kaye in the United States since 1901, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 538 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 538 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1940s alone account for 33%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 503 boys have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kaye | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 18 | |
| 1910s | 181 | |
| 1920s | 293 | |
| 1930s | 1,442 | |
| 1940s | 4,334 | |
| 1950s | 3,537 | |
| 1960s | 2,008 | |
| 1970s | 495 | |
| 1980s | 374 | |
| 1990s | 209 | |
| 2000s | 138 | |
| 2010s | 100 | |
| 2020s | 56 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Kaye was the 344th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Kaye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sherrillpeak 1947
- Carolpeak 1946
- Glendapeak 1950
- Glyndapeak 1947
- Dianpeak 1946
- Carolynpeak 1947
- Karelpeak 1939
- Janicepeak 1951
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.