Kaiser
Kaiser was given to 296 boys in 2025, #836 among boys’ names; 3,955 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,840 Americans named Kaiser and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaiser by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaiser?
#836 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaiser rose from #1,276 in 2015 to #836 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.17 per 1,000.
350 babies in 2022, the peak
Kaiser peaked in 2022, when 350 babies were given it (342 boys, #749 among boys’ names). The 296 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 296 | #836 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 314 | #805 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 337 | #766 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 342 | #749 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 313 | #787 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 261 | #867 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 275 | #822 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 275 | #817 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 225 | #931 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 208 | #982 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 141 | #1,276 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,050 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,152 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,652 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,610 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,223 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,682 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,302 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,583 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,718 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,125 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,109 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,250 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,903 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,579 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,235 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,351 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,091 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,318 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,675 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,521 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,434 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,929 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,542 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,430 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,551 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,155 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,712 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,481 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,798 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,359 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,520 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,240 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,327 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,574 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,674 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,031 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,080 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,993 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,399 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaiser a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaiser has been given almost only to boys: 34 girls in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaiser: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaiser, and how old are they?
3,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,955 Americans ever recorded as Kaiser. The median Kaiser alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 2,044 people named Kaiser (68 women and girls, 1,976 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,049 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 51 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 544 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,130 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kaiser born?
The states with the most babies named Kaiser are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #816 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 23 | #474 | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 23 | #245 | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 18 | #283 | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #606 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 15 | #637 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 15 | #935 | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 14 | #228 | 2.7× |
| Michigan | 13 | #620 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 12 | #617 | 1.0× |
Where Kaiser is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaiser is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1915 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaiser with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,303 babies since 1880, Kaiser is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 296 of their 345 babies (86%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kaiser
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kaiser and names like it
- Compare Kaiser and KasirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaiser peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaiser since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kaiser.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaiser alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.