Kaci
#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 98.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 348 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,009since 1965
Kaci over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaci has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,117 | 88 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #2,067 | 93 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #1,865 | 107 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #1,692 | 123 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #1,830 | 110 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #1,642 | 126 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #1,560 | 138 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #1,520 | 143 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #1,545 | 142 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #1,406 | 165 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,566 | 140 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #1,665 | 127 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,514 | 145 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #1,651 | 129 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,480 | 151 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,307 | 180 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,478 | 157 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,309 | 190 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #1,332 | 182 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,083 | 234 | — | |
| 2005 | #994 | 245 | — | |
| 2004 | #978 | 243 | — | |
| 2003 | #967 | 240 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,044 | 206 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #958 | 229 | — | |
| 2000 | #952 | 224 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #847 | 255 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #765 | 281 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #812 | 255 | — | |
| 1996 | #791 | 263 | — | |
| 1995 | #873 | 220 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #851 | 234 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #724 | 293 | — | |
| 1992 | #734 | 288 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #659 | 332 | — | |
| 1990 | #620 | 362 | — | |
| 1989 | #610 | 348 | — | |
| 1988 | #624 | 318 | — | |
| 1987 | #655 | 287 | — | |
| 1986 | #620 | 302 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #785 | 213 | — | |
| 1984 | #810 | 195 | — | |
| 1983 | #816 | 188 | — | |
| 1982 | #942 | 158 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,025 | 140 | — | |
| 1980 | #917 | 164 | — | |
| 1979 | #995 | 143 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,241 | 100 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,429 | 78 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,638 | 60 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,586 | 62 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,772 | 50 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,913 | 43 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,311 | 32 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,375 | 32 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaci! It came in at #6,539, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1966, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaci is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#269 · 1 in 1,337
- Utah#329 · 1 in 1,896
- Iowa#412 · 1 in 3,718
- Missouri#502 · 1 in 4,379
- Texas#702 · 1 in 5,442
Best ever in a state: #137 in Hawaii, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Idaho | #269 | 5 | 1 in 1,337 |
| Utah | #329 | 8 | 1 in 1,896 |
| Iowa | #412 | 5 | 1 in 3,718 |
| Missouri | #502 | 7 | 1 in 4,379 |
| Texas | #702 | 19 | 1 in 5,442 |
| Ohio | #1,005 | 5 | 1 in 13,791 |
| California | #2,090 | 5 | 1 in 30,666 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaci
- 50 spots since 2024 (#2,067 → #2,117)
- 475 spots since 2020 (#1,642 → #2,117)
- 551 spots since 2015 (#1,566 → #2,117)
- Biggest jump: 246 spots in 1979 (#1,241 → #995)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 1994 (#724 → #851)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 1989 at #610 (348 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1982–2001
- Highest: 1 in 5,245 girls born in 1990 were named Kaci (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,264 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #610 in 1989, was only 1 in 5,298 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.8% of all girls named Kaci (2,783) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 37 | #3,789 (1968) | #5,718 |
| 1970s | 619 | #995 (1979) | #1,857 |
| 1980s | 2,313 | #610 (1989) | #780 |
| 1990s | 2,783 | #620 (1990) | #768 |
| 2000s | 2,150 | #952 (2000) | #1,110 |
| 2010s | 1,460 | #1,307 (2010) | #1,521 |
| 2020s | 647 | #1,642 (2020) | #1,869 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kaci in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 15,319 of them was named Kaci, which outranked 89.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,231Paola101
- #1,231Rosanne101
- #1,231Shawana101
- #1,241Kaci100
- #1,241Brandon100
- #1,241Chantelle100
- #1,241Jolie100
- #1,248Crista99
- #1,248Jeffrey99
- #1,248Lia99
Tied with 6 names at #1,241; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.