girls:
27 births since 2016
#5689 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.3k births since 1915
#2173 (53rd percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1915
#4735 (39th percentile)
The name Kaiser is the #4,735 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,327 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 38.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,173 (52.6% percentile) for all time with 3,300 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 2016.
Kaiser first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Kaiser is available in 61 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (61 years for boys and 4 years for girls). 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 Kaiser has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kaiser reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 34.4% percentile (ranked #598) with 183 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 183 births per million (ranked 34.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1989, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kaiser is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #598 (34.4% percentile) with 183 births per million.
For girls, Kaiser reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #941) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaiser".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kaiser is pronounced as KAI-zer, which has 2 syllables.
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