Kanye
Last seen for girls in 2005 at #16,462 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2004 · 509 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,404since 2002
Kanye over time
Rank among boys' names. Kanye has never cracked the top 400 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 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,199 | 14 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,517 | 13 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,147 | 14 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2020 | — | #12,022 | 5 | |
| 2019 | — | #9,756 | 7 | |
| 2018 | — | #6,345 | 13 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,318 | 17 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,882 | 27 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,392 | 22 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,848 | 40 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,179 | 35 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,164 | 35 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,531 | 30 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,119 | 64 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,813 | 81 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,416 | 53 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,501 | 101 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #892 | 202 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #486 | 509 |
| 2003 | — | #1,492 | 87 | |
| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kanye! It came in at #10,667, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2002, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kanye is popular in 2002
No state had 5 or more boys named Kanye in 2002, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kanye
- 5,809 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #12,008)
- 14 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #12,008)
- 8,126 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 1,006 spots in 2004 (#1,492 → #486)
- Biggest drop: 609 spots in 2006 (#892 → #1,501)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2004 at #486 (509 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2004–2005
- Highest: 1 in 3,900 boys born in 2004 were named Kanye (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 78.5% of all boys named Kanye (1,102) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,102 | #486 (2004) | #2,673 |
| 2010s | 239 | #2,848 (2013) | #4,875 |
| 2020s | 63 | #6,147 (2022) | #8,265 |
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.
Kanye in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 388,303 of them was named Kanye, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).