Ky
Ky is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199242 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1950
- 1,628people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,474 boys have been named Ky in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 42 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 20%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 154 girls have also been given it, 9.5% of the total.
By decade
In 1992, its biggest year
Ky was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Ky
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kendricpeak 2013
- Tarekpeak 1996
- Kendrickpeak 2013
- Fabiopeak 2006
- Thaddaeuspeak 2005
- Leandrepeak 1991
- Romelpeak 1991
- Stefanopeak 1993
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.