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Kay name popularity
Kay has been given to 102,545 babies in the United States since 1882.
It peaked in 1942, when 3,718 babies got the name, and its best rank was #133 in 1941.
In 2025, 47 babies were named Kay (#5,826 in the country), 99% below the peak. That is down 8% from 2015.
About 96% of babies named Kay were girls and 4% were boys.
An estimated 61K people named Kay are alive in the US today, with a median age of 74.
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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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