Kaito
Kaito was given to 71 boys in 2025, #2,085 among boys’ names; 1,235 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Kaito and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaito by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaito?
#2,085 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaito rose from #2,624 in 2015 to #2,085 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.5 to 41.6 per million.
84 babies in 2022, the peak
Kaito peaked in 2022, when 84 boys were given it, #1,878 among boys’ names. The 71 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,085 | 41.6 |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,038 | 43.5 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,204 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 84 | #1,878 | 48.1 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,099 | 39.4 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,223 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,324 | 32.9 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,769 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,548 | 27.0 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,957 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,624 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,643 | 23.9 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,607 | 24.3 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,797 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,829 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,661 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 43 | #2,822 | 21.7 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,600 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,838 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,003 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,926 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,070 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,579 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,602 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,893 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,472 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,170 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,921 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,960 | 9.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,548 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaito a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaito has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaito: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaito, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,235 Americans ever recorded as Kaito. The median Kaito alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 771 people named Kaito (3 women and girls, 768 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 817 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 465 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 753 |
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 Kaito born?
The states with the most babies named Kaito are California, Washington and Hawaii, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington and Hawaii are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,543 | 2.1× |
| Washington | 8 | #765 | 0.7× |
| Hawaii | 5 | #237 | 19.6× |
| New York | 5 | #1,897 | 0.9× |
Where Kaito is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaito is most over-represented in California: since 1994 it was given 2.1 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 Kaito 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,770 babies since 1880, Kaito is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 165 babies (43%), 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 Kaito
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 Kaito and names like it
- Compare Kaito and KatoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaito peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaito since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kaito.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaito alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.