girls:
1.9k births since 1925
#3888 (32nd percentile)
boys:
3.6k births since 1880
#2081 (55th percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1880
#3682 (52nd percentile)
The name Kit is the #3,682 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,482 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 52.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,081 (54.6% percentile) for all time with 3,565 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,888 (32.0% percentile) for all time with 1,917 births since 1925.
Kit has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1925 for girls). Birth data for Kit is available in 113 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (112 years for boys and 80 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 Kit has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (65.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 57.5% of babies named Kit were boys.
For boys, Kit reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 19.3% percentile (ranked #735) with 99 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 99 births per million (ranked 19.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kit is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #735 (19.3% percentile) with 99 births per million.
For girls, Kit reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 16.8% percentile (ranked #797) with 93 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 93 births per million (ranked 16.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kit ranks #818 for girls (13.6% percentile) with 77 births per million, which is 82.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kit".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kit. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kit is pronounced as kiht, which has 1 syllables.
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