Kay
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#3,946
down −20 places
2025 births
37
down −1 births
All-time births
98,621
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1942
- 3,622 births
- Best rank
- #70
- in 1941
- First recorded
- 1885
- #987 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1949
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 141 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19423,622#75Peak
- 19413,538#70
- 19473,520#104
- 19433,494#81
- 19463,358#101
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #70 in 1941 · peak births 3,622 in 1942
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 4% boys■ 96% girls
3,924 boys · 98,621 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Kay has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.