Ky
- Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194
- #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
- Given to boys 90.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 37 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,505since 1950
Ky over time
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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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,583 | 31 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,200 | 25 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #3,347 | 35 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #3,464 | 33 |
| 2021 | — | #3,651 | 30 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,020 | 25 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #3,373 | 33 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #3,617 | 29 |
| 2013 | — | #3,661 | 28 | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | — | #3,605 | 29 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,067 | 18 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,793 | 27 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,865 | 18 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,172 | 32 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | — | #2,882 | 32 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,681 | 35 | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | — | #3,064 | 24 | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #2,679 | 28 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #3,191 | 21 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #2,307 | 34 |
| 1993 | — | #2,455 | 30 | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,870 | 41 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,206 | 31 |
| 1988 | — | #2,146 | 29 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,760 | 37 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | — | #2,357 | 22 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,613 | 18 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,140 | 24 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,111 | 25 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,898 | 15 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | — | #2,826 | 14 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | — | #2,243 | 17 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,213 | 17 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,030 | 15 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1950
The first year at least five boys were named Ky! It came in at #3,681, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1956, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ky is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Ky in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 617 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #3,583)
- 437 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #3,583)
- 596 spots since 2015 (#4,179 → #3,583)
Rise & fade · boys
37 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1987 at #1,760 (37 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 19 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 46,274
- Highest: 1 in 46,274 boys born in 2017 were named Ky (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,760 in 1987, was only 1 in 50,459 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 19.8% of all boys named Ky (298) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 30 | #2,631 (1957) | #3,575 |
| 1960s | 65 | #2,030 (1967) | #2,910 |
| 1970s | 150 | #2,052 (1971) | #2,695 |
| 1980s | 244 | #1,760 (1987) | #2,316 |
| 1990s | 298 | #1,870 (1990) | #2,619 |
| 2000s | 269 | #2,681 (2001) | #3,662 |
| 2010s | 270 | #2,951 (2017) | #3,939 |
| 2020s | 179 | #3,347 (2023) | #3,711 |
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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