girls:
781 births since 1962
#4935 (14th percentile)
boys:
136 births since 1976
#4450 (3rd percentile)
overall:
917 births since 1962
#6822 (12th percentile)
The name Ka is the #6,822 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 917 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 11.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,935 (13.6% percentile) for all time with 781 births since 1962. For boys, it ranks #4,450 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 136 births since 1976.
Ka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Ka is available in 30 out of the 44 years between 1962 and 2005 (28 years for girls and 19 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ka has been given predominantly to girls, with 85.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2005, 0.0% of babies named Ka were girls.
For girls, Ka reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 7.0% percentile (ranked #802) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 32 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
For boys, Ka reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 5 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ka".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ka. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Ka is pronounced as kah, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh, at 15.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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