girls:
109 births since 1957
#5607 (2nd percentile)
boys:
426 births since 1946
#4160 (9th percentile)
overall:
535 births since 1946
#7204 (7th percentile)
The name Ki is the #7,204 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 535 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 6.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,160 (9.2% percentile) for all time with 426 births since 1946. For girls, it ranks #5,607 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 109 births since 1957.
Ki first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for boys and 1957 for girls). Birth data for Ki is available in 56 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023 (52 years for boys and 18 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 Ki has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Ki were boys.
For boys, Ki reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #798) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Ki reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #856) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ki ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 71.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ki".
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