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 | ||
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| 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 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#329 · 1 in 1,767
- Connecticut#420 · 1 in 3,356
- Mississippi#515 · 1 in 2,950
- Virginia#528 · 1 in 3,915
- Louisiana#557 · 1 in 3,445
Best ever in a state: #142 in Delaware, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #329 | 12 | 1 in 1,767 |
| Connecticut | #420 | 5 | 1 in 3,356 |
| Mississippi | #515 | 5 | 1 in 2,950 |
| Virginia | #528 | 11 | 1 in 3,915 |
| Louisiana | #557 | 7 | 1 in 3,445 |
| Missouri | #603 | 7 | 1 in 4,862 |
| Georgia | #639 | 13 | 1 in 4,593 |
| Indiana | #653 | 7 | 1 in 5,465 |
| Maryland | #695 | 5 | 1 in 5,756 |
| Pennsylvania | #719 | 9 | 1 in 7,087 |
| Illinois | #736 | 12 | 1 in 6,429 |
| New Jersey | #739 | 7 | 1 in 6,705 |
| Florida | #808 | 13 | 1 in 7,615 |
| North Carolina | #881 | 6 | 1 in 8,719 |
| New York | #909 | 12 | 1 in 9,023 |
| Michigan | #915 | 6 | 1 in 9,122 |
| California | #1,117 | 16 | 1 in 15,885 |
| Texas | #1,249 | 11 | 1 in 16,465 |
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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 |
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| 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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 369,568 of them was named Kanye, which outranked 14.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 9,888 of them was named Kanye, which outranked 93.3% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).