Kaye
The girl's name Kaye has been in the national records since 1901, with 13,707 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,325th. About 9,000 Kayes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,707
- Estimated living today
- 9,000
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 344th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,325th
- First recorded
- 1901
- Girls / boys
- 13,204 / 503
How old the living Kayes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,707 babies given the name since 1901, about 9,000 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 200 of them are children and 6,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kayes
- Kaye Hall (born 1951)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder, art teacher
- Kaye Ballard (1925–2019)American actress, comedian, and singer
- Robert Kaye Greville (1794–1866)British botanist
People named Kaye with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kaye is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kaye is most concentrated in Utah (5.7×), Idaho (3.2×), Wisconsin (2.7×), Iowa (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Kaye peaked:
Kaye elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Kaye | 227 | 89th |
| Scotland girls | Kaye | 132 | 241st |
| England and Wales girls | Kaye | 84 | 1,970th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Kaye against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.