Kayse — unisex name
447 babies named Kayse in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 1987. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Kayse was born in this single decade.
32 babies were named Kayse in 1987 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kayse
The Social Security Administration has registered 447 babies named Kayse between 1974 and 2022, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kayse currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Kayse is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 69 additional births since 2011.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kayse performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 159 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kayse shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kayse in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kayse 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 447 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.
Kayse at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kayse popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1974
- Peak year (1987)
- 32
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
447 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1987 with 32 births in a single year.
Kayse popularity over time — boys
69 total births recorded since 2011 (Kayse as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Kayse accounts for 13% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kayse by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 159 births that decade — 36% of Kayse's all-time total
Kayse decade highlights
- Peak decade 159 births
- Runner-up 131 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Kayse's strongest decade
159 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Kayse by state
Where Kayse concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 15 | 3.4% |
15 of 447 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.