Kitt
- #4,758 for girls in 2025, 28 births
- #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Given to girls 52.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 13 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 312since 1945
Kitt over time
girlsboys
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #4,758 | 28 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | #3,394 | 34 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | — | #7,491 | 10 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | — | |
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| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | — | |
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| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
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| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
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| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | #2,942 | 8 |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1945
The first year at least five girls were named Kitt! It came in at #4,556, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kitt is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · girls
- Texas#3,285 · 1 in 32,108
Best ever in a state: #1,481 in California, 1959.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
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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.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 1,409 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #4,758)
- 3,211 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #4,758)
Rise & fade · girls
21 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1966 at #3,558 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1967, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 57,402
- Highest: 1 in 57,402 girls born in 2025 were named Kitt (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,558 in 1966, was only 1 in 130,167 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 35.3% of all girls named Kitt (110) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,556 (1945) | #4,556 |
| 1950s | 45 | #4,031 (1959) | #4,785 |
| 1960s | 82 | #3,558 (1966) | #5,118 |
| 1970s | 17 | #7,649 (1978) | #8,728 |
| 1980s | 5 | #10,392 (1980) | #10,392 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 5 | #17,168 (2006) | #17,168 |
| 2010s | 43 | #10,689 (2017) | #12,857 |
| 2020s | 110 | #4,758 (2025) | #6,636 |
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.
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