girls:
21 births since 1999
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
176 births since 1994
#4410 (4th percentile)
overall:
197 births since 1994
#7542 (3rd percentile)
The name Kayman is the #7,542 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 197 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,410 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 176 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1999.
Kayman first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Kayman is available in 27 out of the 30 years between 1994 and 2023 (26 years for boys and 3 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 Kayman has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kayman were boys.
For boys, Kayman reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #790) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Despite a peak around 2017, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Kayman ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 66.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kayman reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #961) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kayman".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kayman is pronounced as KAY-muhn, which has 2 syllables.
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