Kayte — girls' name
508 babies named Kayte in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
508 girls have been named Kayte since 1978, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2017.
- 508
- total births
- 1978–2017
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 32%
- born in that decade
32% of everyone ever named Kayte was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Kayte in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kayte
The Social Security Administration has registered 508 babies named Kayte between 1978 and 2017, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kayte currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 29 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kayte performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kayte shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kayte in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kayte 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 508 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.
Kayte at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kayte popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1978
- Peak year (1988)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
508 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 29 births in a single year.
Kayte by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 161 births that decade — 32% of Kayte's all-time total
Kayte decade highlights
- Peak decade 161 births
- Runner-up 158 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kayte's strongest decade
161 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Kayte by state
Where Kayte concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Florida | | 5 | 1.0% |
5 of 508 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Florida 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Florida accounts for 1.0% 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, 1978–2017 (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.