Kaye

Kaye is the 4,159th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,244 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,300.

By the numbers

People: 8,244
Rank: 4,159th
How common: 1 in 36,300
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kaye described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Kaye

Danny Kaye (1911–1987)American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian
Gorden Kaye (1941–2017)British actor
Stubby Kaye (1918–1997)American actor
Mark-Anthony Kaye (born 1994)Canadian association footballer
Tony Kaye (born 1945)British keyboardist
Tony Kaye (born 1952)British film director
Paul Kaye (born 1964)British actor and comedian
Marina Kaye (born 1998)French singer and songwriter

People named Kaye with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kaye

Also a first name

Kaye has been given to 13,707 American babies as a first name since 1901, peaking in 1947. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.