Kaiser
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · #835 for boys in 2025, 296 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 342 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,921since 1915
Kaiser over time
Rank among boys' names. Kaiser has never cracked the top 700 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 | — | #835 | 296 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #800 | 314 |
| 2023 | — | #765 | 337 | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #749 | 342 |
| 2021 | — | #786 | 313 | |
| 2020 | — | #866 | 261 | |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #820 | 275 |
| 2018 | — | #817 | 275 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #929 | 225 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #980 | 208 |
| 2015 | — | #1,271 | 141 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,044 | 69 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,139 | 62 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,590 | 47 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,212 | 59 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,663 | 46 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,291 | 57 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,564 | 48 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,698 | 43 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,062 | 22 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,074 | 32 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,528 | 25 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,188 | 19 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,842 | 21 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,536 | 23 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,182 | 25 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
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| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,882 | 9 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
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| 1915 | — | #2,829 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaiser! It came in at #2,829, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kaiser is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#285 · 1 in 1,163
- Nebraska#384 · 1 in 1,504
- Kentucky#430 · 1 in 2,049
- Tennessee#446 · 1 in 2,200
- South Carolina#455 · 1 in 2,292
Best ever in a state: #153 in Mississippi, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #285 | 11 | 1 in 1,163 |
| Nebraska | #384 | 6 | 1 in 1,504 |
| Kentucky | #430 | 10 | 1 in 2,049 |
| Tennessee | #446 | 16 | 1 in 2,200 |
| South Carolina | #455 | 9 | 1 in 2,292 |
| Louisiana | #456 | 11 | 1 in 2,055 |
| Utah | #488 | 8 | 1 in 2,420 |
| Kansas | #496 | 6 | 1 in 2,355 |
| Ohio | #517 | 18 | 1 in 3,143 |
| Arkansas | #545 | 5 | 1 in 2,661 |
| Minnesota | #594 | 8 | 1 in 3,272 |
| Oklahoma | #596 | 6 | 1 in 3,076 |
| Alabama | #643 | 6 | 1 in 3,774 |
| Georgia | #653 | 13 | 1 in 3,995 |
| Missouri | #692 | 7 | 1 in 4,252 |
| Indiana | #703 | 8 | 1 in 4,213 |
| Wisconsin | #763 | 5 | 1 in 5,017 |
| Virginia | #804 | 7 | 1 in 5,642 |
| Texas | #845 | 27 | 1 in 6,464 |
| Arizona | #884 | 5 | 1 in 6,688 |
| Pennsylvania | #884 | 8 | 1 in 6,983 |
| Michigan | #961 | 6 | 1 in 7,338 |
| Florida | #1,045 | 11 | 1 in 8,615 |
| North Carolina | #1,061 | 6 | 1 in 8,358 |
| New York | #1,319 | 8 | 1 in 11,694 |
| California | #1,873 | 8 | 1 in 25,394 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Kaiser
- 35 spots since 2024 (#800 → #835)
- 31 spots since 2020 (#866 → #835)
- 436 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #835)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 2016 (#1,271 → #980)
- Biggest drop: 46 spots in 2020 (#820 → #866)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2022 at #749 (342 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,076 boys born in 2023 were named Kaiser (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,771 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #749 in 2022, was only 1 in 5,105 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 47.5% of all boys named Kaiser (1,863) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 31 | #2,829 (1915) | #3,080 |
| 1920s | 29 | #2,967 (1920) | #3,426 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,549 |
| 1940s | 20 | #2,443 (1948) | #3,202 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 17 | #3,365 (1968) | #3,784 |
| 1970s | 39 | #3,370 (1971) | #4,649 |
| 1980s | 34 | #5,525 (1980) | #6,311 |
| 1990s | 140 | #3,182 (1999) | #4,677 |
| 2000s | 336 | #2,291 (2008) | #3,245 |
| 2010s | 1,407 | #817 (2018) | #1,643 |
| 2020s | 1,863 | #749 (2022) | #800 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kaiser in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 186,485 of them was named Kaiser, which outranked 41.9% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,736Zoii10
- #9,736Zonnique10
- #9,736Zuzu10
- #10,473Kaiser9
- #10,473Aadhyasri9
- #10,473Aaima9
- #10,473Aakriti9
- #11,356Aahna8
- #11,356Aalina8
- #11,356Aaralynn8
Tied with 882 names at #10,473; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 6,524 of them was named Kaiser, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).