girls:
154 births since 1969
#5562 (3rd percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1950
#3196 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1950
#6144 (21st percentile)
The name Ky is the #6,144 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,602 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 20.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,196 (30.3% percentile) for all time with 1,448 births since 1950. For girls, it ranks #5,562 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 154 births since 1969.
Ky first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Ky is available in 66 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (66 years for boys and 25 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 Ky has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 87.5% of babies named Ky were boys.
For boys, Ky reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #733) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ky is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #881 (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million.
For girls, Ky reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ky ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 61.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ky".
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