Kee
Kee was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 1,416 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,470, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1924, the peak
Kee peaked in 1924, when 44 boys were given it, #1,082 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #11,470 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,106 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,312 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,641 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,855 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,933 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,319 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,320 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,071 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,477 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | #6,814 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,657 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,103 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,862 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,445 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,624 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,837 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,265 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,126 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,104 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,105 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,075 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,848 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,529 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,590 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,341 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,324 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,549 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,430 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,872 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,281 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,906 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,948 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,800 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,064 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,094 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,778 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,253 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,115 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,883 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,415 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,600 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,477 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,950 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,804 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,972 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,937 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,218 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,563 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,880 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,263 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,665 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,146 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,321 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,193 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,851 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,643 | 11.8 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,171 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 24 | #1,537 | 13.1 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,452 | 14.8 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,605 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,273 | 20.5 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,557 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,343 | 19.5 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,244 | 23.6 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,222 | 26.7 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,255 | 25.3 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,237 | 26.1 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,326 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,260 | 27.0 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,313 | 25.9 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,535 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,042 | 39.3 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,344 | 25.9 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,515 | 21.2 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,446 | 23.7 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,185 | 32.5 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,367 | 26.2 |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,153 | 34.6 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,344 | 27.0 |
| 1925 | 41 | #1,099 | 36.7 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,082 | 38.8 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,906 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,455 | 24.8 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,572 | 21.8 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,926 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,020 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,861 | 17.8 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,234 | 14.0 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,348 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,631 | 7.1 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,643 | 26.6 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,726 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kee has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kee, and how old are they?
An estimated 586 Americans named Kee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 37 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,726 people named Kee (504 women and girls, 1,222 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 701 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kee rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Kee born?
The states with the most babies named Kee are Arizona, New Mexico and California, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona and New Mexico are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 781 | not ranked | 68.6× |
| New Mexico | 158 | not ranked | 18.8× |
| California | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kee is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1910 it was given 68.6 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 Kee 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,734 babies since 1880, Kee is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 none of their 29 babies recorded by SSA was a Kee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kee
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 Kee and names like it
- Compare Kee and KeiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sKee peaked in 1924.
- Arizona’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kee since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Kee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.