Kansas — #7595 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kansas

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,216 babies named Kansas between 1898 and 2024, spanning 127 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kansas currently holds the #7595 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 50 babies received it in a single year. Kansas is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 93 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kansas performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 361 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Kansas shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kansas in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kansas in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,216 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.