Kush
- #5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 63 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,221since 1980
Kush over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kush has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #4,571 | 22 |
| 2023 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #4,224 | 24 |
| 2016 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #3,231 | 35 |
| 2014 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | #2,504 | 49 |
| 2010 | #3,308 | 33 |
| 2009 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #2,717 | 45 |
| 2007 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #2,744 | 42 |
| 2005 | #1,943 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,075 | 57 |
| 2003 | #1,870 | 63 |
| 2002 | #2,224 | 47 |
| 2001 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #2,476 | 38 |
| 1999 | #2,023 | 47 |
| 1998 | #2,157 | 42 |
| 1997 | #2,502 | 32 |
| 1996 | #2,332 | 34 |
| 1995 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #4,327 | 13 |
| 1991 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
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| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
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| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
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First appearance
1980
The first year at least five boys were named Kush! It came in at #4,940, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1982, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kush is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kush in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kush
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 637 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #5,208)
- 782 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #5,208)
- 1,977 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #5,208)
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2003 at #1,870 (63 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 30,728
- Highest: 1 in 30,728 boys born in 2005 were named Kush (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,870 in 2003, was only 1 in 31,355 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 39.6% of all boys named Kush (484) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 49 | #4,573 (1987) | #5,504 |
| 1990s | 266 | #2,023 (1999) | #3,077 |
| 2000s | 484 | #1,870 (2003) | #2,402 |
| 2010s | 307 | #2,504 (2011) | #3,737 |
| 2020s | 115 | #4,426 (2020) | #5,022 |
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.
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