Kee — boys' name
1,406 babies named Kee in U.S. Social Security records since 1910, with the highest year being 1924. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
22% of everyone ever named Kee was born in this single decade.
44 babies were named Kee in 1924 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kee
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,406 babies named Kee between 1910 and 2016, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kee currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 44 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kee performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 305 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Kee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arizona, which accounts for 781 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Mexico and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kee in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kee 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 1,406 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.
Kee at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kee popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1910
- Peak year (1924)
- 44
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
1,406 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1924 with 44 births in a single year.
Kee popularity over time — girls
10 total births recorded since 1970 (Kee as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Kee accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 305 births that decade — 22% of Kee's all-time total
Kee decade highlights
- Peak decade 305 births
- Runner-up 273 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Kee's strongest decade
305 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
Kee by state
Where Kee concentrates geographically — total births since 1910
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Arizona | | 781 | 55.5% |
| #2 | New Mexico | | 158 | 11.2% |
| #3 | California | | 21 | 1.5% |
| #4 | Wisconsin | | 5 | 0.4% |
781 of 1,406 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Arizona 55.5% of nationwide
- New Mexico 11.2% of nationwide
- California 1.5% of nationwide
- Wisconsin 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Arizona accounts for 55.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1910–2016 (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.